freeflyz 0 #1 November 15, 2002 Would you belive he landed this!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spy38W 0 #2 November 15, 2002 ...Thanks, Oops I crapped my pants -- Hook high, flare on time Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
christoofar 0 #3 November 15, 2002 Dead chicken. Heh ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #4 November 15, 2002 WTF?! How the f&*k did that happen? Don't let Jessica see this thread! Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhillyKev 0 #5 November 15, 2002 Quote Would you belive he landed this!!! No kidding, I would have cut it away and gone for the reserve Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,058 #6 November 15, 2002 >Would you belive he landed this!!! Our pilots landed a King Air with much worse tail damage than that - it looked similar but the horizontal stabilizer was also bent backwards pretty severely. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #7 November 15, 2002 Thats a right decent bird strike. I saw some really good ones in the Air Force. Hawks through B-52 inboard leading edges. One that made a hole large enough to get my upper body and shoulders in. Another that went through the radome, radar dish, an avionics box, the firewall, and ended up hung up in the rudder pedals. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jessica 0 #8 November 15, 2002 Quote Don't let Jessica see this thread! Too late.... Skydiving is for cool people only Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #9 November 15, 2002 Quote Our pilots landed a King Air with much worse tail damage than that I think Mike Mullins has had some pretty severe tail damage before. Strange that on this one it got the horizontal stab but I guess missed the rest of the plane. He almost made it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pop 0 #10 November 15, 2002 sucks to be the bird7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FreeFlyHol 0 #11 November 15, 2002 Awe, cute freflyz! It's just as cute as those "sleeping cows" we can see on the dairy farm when we take off. (You know...those ones that all sleep together...in the pit)When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflyz 0 #12 November 15, 2002 Really they're sleeping!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #13 November 15, 2002 Quote Hawks through B-52 inboard leading edges. One that made a hole large enough to get my upper body and shoulders in. Another that went through the radome, radar dish, an avionics box, the firewall, and ended up hung up in the rudder pedals. Holy shit! I had no idea that striking a bird in mid air did this level of damage. (well, except when it gets sucked into an engine) Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #14 November 15, 2002 Quote I had no idea that striking a bird in mid air did this level of damage Well...just remember that most aircraft skin is only made of .040 thousandths 2024 T-3 Aluminium. T-3 is pretty soft as metals go and .040 ain't real thick. When a plane is doing 100-200 MPH and meets a bird going 10 the opposite direction it can get ugly. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Keith 0 #15 November 15, 2002 I was all feeling sorry for the poor bird until I saw the pic with just the feet hanging down then bust out laughing Keith Don't Fuck with me Keith - J. Mandeville Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #16 November 15, 2002 Wow! Hope they thawed it out first!!! hehehe"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimmytavino 16 #17 November 16, 2002 Wow. that sure isn't any chickadee,, looks more like a turkey vulture, or a freakin' CONDOR.... any further outboard on the horiz. stab. and that bad boy may have had enough leverage to tear it off.... preety well built plane... "Talk to me Goose!!!"..."Uh roger Mav...I got him.... Bogie!!!!heading three one zero...." closure speed 900 knots..." ..... " Maverick we don't have any fuel for THIS!!!!"""..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viking 0 #18 November 16, 2002 Quote ...Thanks, Oops I crapped my pants They make diapers for grownup for thatI swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wlie 0 #19 November 16, 2002 I pity the poor sob who's gonna have to do some cleanup. Gross!My other ride is the relative wind. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rachill 0 #20 November 16, 2002 Holy Shit! That's a big fuckin bird! (Sorry for the use of foul language!) But DAMN! BooYa#1 GR#50 You might be a skydiver if... Your having sex and she whispers in your ear "I've never done this before" and you yell out "Case of Beer" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IronMike 0 #21 November 17, 2002 Has a skydiver ever hit a bird? I would guess hitting a buzzard in Texas would ruin your day. Even a sparrow can bring down a plane. Some cargo turboprop suked a few sparrows in an engine which caused it to loose power, and the other engine automatically shut down in what is called a "sympathetic unstop" and the plane crashed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
QuickDraw 0 #22 November 17, 2002 Someone posted a picture a while back of a pair of pair of goggles with a sparrow or sommat like that half way through them. Although there was talk of photoshop having some part to play as i recall, i don't think a search will find it as i think it was before Sangiro purged the site. -- Hope you don't die. -- I'm fucking winning Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
buckleme 0 #23 November 17, 2002 yea.....mullins did have a severe tail accident...tandem reserve over the tail on a back out exit.....see the pic! Blue Skies! Mary B Sandillas Rodriguez Muff Brother #2959 TF #77 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lippy 918 #24 November 17, 2002 Quotetandem reserve over the tail on a back out exit Holy shit!!!! Was everybody OK on that one?I got nuthin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kris 0 #25 November 18, 2002 Quoteyea.....mullins did have a severe tail accident...tandem reserve over the tail on a back out exit.....see the pic! And he managed to land that?! My respect rating for Mike just doubled. That cat is about as good as it gets. KrisSky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
