anyone ever hit a bird?

[Krosfyah 0]

When chatting about jumping with some non jumping friends the other day, as uhhh you do from time to time :) one of them asked what happens if you hit a bird. I haven't ever heard of anyone coming into contact with a bird, but when i thought about it, i thought stranger things have happened and it might well be possible that this has happened.
Anyhoo, does anyone know if this has actually happened to anyone (god forbid, for both the jumper and birds' sakes)

[Slowfaller 0]

If Fabio can get hit by bird on a roller coaster I'm sure a skydiver has hit a bird under canopy. Freefall might be a little high for the birdies.
I'll go to college; learn some big words; I'll talk real loud god damn right I'll be heard.

[skymama 37]

Why do I have this feeling that somehow this thread will turn into something about sheep?
Nope, never hit a bird, or heard of anyone doing it. But, if you want to ask about people almost hitting planes, I'm the one to ask!
Andrea
The brave may not live forever, but the timid may not live at all.

[Slappie 9]

I haven't heard about bird strikes.. I'm sure they have happened. When visiting Dallas I heard of Locust strikes and bananas... That's about it...
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[freeflir29 0]

Birds aren't stupid....they move. I have witnessed a flock of geese scatter when they heard jumpers in free fall. I'd like to see someone catch a bird under canopy. I don't think it'll happen. Now occasionally Hawks and other birds will do a fly by or cruise along side you while under canopy.
"I only have 133 jumps, so I don't know shit..right?"-Clay

[freebird 0]

I have a dead bird stuck in the front of my car.
The longer you wait ........the more sense you get.

[skymama 37]

Clay, that was a serious answer on the "talk back" forum. Are you feeling ok? Did you bump your head or something today? Kind of a weird, Twilight Zone thing going on there for me!
Andrea
The brave may not live forever, but the timid may not live at all.

[freeflir29 0]

"Are you feeling ok?"
No...I'm stressing...Have that job interview on Thursday and the assholes haven't sent my plane tickets yet and I have many more pages of forms to fill out and....and.........
"I only have 133 jumps, so I don't know shit..right?"-Clay

[scottbre 0]

This has actually been brought up on these forums before. Check this link out.
http://www.skyxtreme.com/archive/july2000/safety.html
It's about halfway down the page. "Let the rabbits wear glasses. . . "

[JumpHog 0]

It has happened.
http://www.skyxtreme.com/archive/july2000/safety.html
Scroll down to "Skydiver Got Hit By A Bird"

[MarkM 0]

I've seen a picture of a helmet visor with a bird stuck halfway through it from a skydiver hitting it in freefall. The diver came away with a black eye. Would've been worse without the visor.

[scottbre 0]

Beat ya to it, JumpHog.
Besides mine is better anyway, cause it's clickable.
"Let the rabbits wear glasses. . . "

[skymama 37]

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No...I'm stressing

See, now look how tuned in I am to your feelings, even over the internet. (Oh my God, is that ever scary!)
Hope things go better for you. Just remember, if it's meant to be, it will all work out.
Andrea
The brave may not live forever, but the timid may not live at all.

[PhreeZone 20]

Can you say.... doctored photo???
Any soft object hiting a hard object at that speed would just break apart....
Cause I don't wanna come back down from this cloud... ~ Bush

[mikefarmer 0]

Check the fatality pages as well. I would swear that I read about a guy being killed in Austrailia when an eagle went through his chest in freefall. Either somebody got me, or I read it somewhere. I think it would have been in 98 or 99.
Missy the 225 lb. Meat Missile
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[freeflir29 0]

Thats Wacky....It had to be a "Tit Mouse" since it was involved in Skydiving right?
"I only have 133 jumps, so I don't know shit..right?"-Clay

[freeflir29 0]

"See, now look how tuned in I am to your feelings, even over the internet"
ROTFLMAO......."I only have 133 jumps, so I don't know shit..right?"-Clay

[Zennie 0]

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Now occasionally Hawks and other birds will do a fly by or cruise along side you while under canopy.

Just this weekend I had a hawk cruise by me while I was under canopy (at about 2000' no less).
As he went by all I could think "Man that's too cool. God I love this sport!"
"Zero Tolerance: the politically correct term for zero thought, zero common sense."

[QuickDraw 0]

We used to have a budgie that pecked all the frilly bit,s off of a lampshade in our front room, i never hit it... but gave it a few telling,s off for it.
If it's got tit's or wheel,s..it's trouble.

[SkydiveMonkey 0]

At the BCPA nationals at Hibaldstow last year we took out a pheasent with the university minibus at about 60mph !! There was glass and feathers everywhere !!
You shouldn't put a knife in the toaster - but you're an adult now !!!

[Shark 0]

Hmmm. I've had lots of "bug" impacts, but I think, and hope that most birds keep there flights below 2000 AGL. I've done CReW with the local Hawk before. We just didn't dock...

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[skybytch 273]

Never hit one in freefall or under canopy.... but when I was a kid I used to take out tweetie birds all the time with my .22...
pull and flare,
lisa
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[LawnDart21 0]

I've never heard of a jumper hitting a bird in freefall. A Cessna? Yes. But not a bird. A jumper hit the tail of a Cessna a few years ago. Took out the rear stabilizing wing (called an eleron?). The jumper lost a foot, but lived, the plane ended up going in. Not sure on the details, but it is a true story from what I have heard.
"I live to EFS"
Tom

[hisgoofyness 0]

geez lisa... were you a tom boy or what?
i can't say much.. i used to do the same thing
hisgoofyness
it ain't easy being goofy, but i do what the little voices in my head tell me to do

[skybytch 273]

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were you a tom boy or what?

Why yes I was! Never did like doing the girly stuff, it was way more fun to ride bikes and shoot guns with the boys pull and flare,
lisa
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