Hawk Birdstrike

there's one engies sat behind the pilot and a bit of fuel. there are air intakes on either side.
these engines are tested to withstand birdstrikes with average size birds, but a bird that big would probably do some serious damage to your car if it hit at several hundred miles a hour!!!!

Your right, you have little insight. Very little.

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Phache, you've just given me a new Ventrilo opening. Oh, and Mav, don't defend someone with sarcastic fake laughing if you're going to make the same mistake and give the most ridiculously obvious insight.

kamikaze birds...that must be it

u may think this is very unlikly, but its not. It only happens when a plane is in its take off and landing phases, this is the height at wich birds fly normally. Now in major airports there are huge taxi ranks, taxi drivers arnt gunna leave their car to put their last bit of fries or hamburger in the bin. so they dump it figure the birds will eat it. The birds come to it like s*** on velcro. birds fly away in flocks into path of take off. this is a 1/10000000 chance but in heathrow something like 250 planes take off per day. So you figure the math an it doesnt seem that unlikely for this to happen in comercial airports.

at gatwick airport, so probably the same elsewhere ... a land rover with a big loudspeaker on the back, which drives round the perimiter making loud noises to scare the birds away. do people really choose 'motorised bird scarer' as a career??

Unlike video games, real technology can be a fragile thing. Like a gambler, you have to play the odds. Odds are, this will not happen, but as you so graphically saw, it CAN happen. Now if they wanted to add slotted intakes on the jet along with an obstruction removal system, the damage could be avoided, but the extra weight would reduce the performance of the aircraft making it useless in combat. These planes are meant to fly on the edge of performance. That is why you never underestimate a military pilot. He does daily what most people never dream of, and in most cases (like this one I’m sure) they survive it.

Although most aircraft can take bird strikes without so much as scratching the paint, fighters are designed differently. For example to test new engines of airliners the shoot frozen turkeys at very highspeeds into the engines while they are running, and the engines just shred them and continue running normally.

And when I said "the shoot", I meant "they shoot". :)

if it cant handle a bird how the hell its gonna performe in battle.

we could use birds as deadly weapons against enemy aircraft..lol

They strapped mines to dolphins during one of the big wars: not so Lol.

awww, look at the little burdyy....... so cute OH S**t !!!
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They were going to try to make it back to the field as indicated by the pilot’s comment “Around the horn. Restart.” They started out at a heading of 285 deg. In order to land they would have to make the right turn to about 200 – 210 deg then cut back left for the strip once they reached it. The situation was made worse when the computer told them “Gear not down!” If this is an armed aircraft with explosives underneath it would not be a pleasant landing. Add the low altitude and an air speed well under 130 knots equals time to hit the silk. Good training, calm heads, and proper procedures saved these men. My hat is off to them. Well done.

shut the F**k up! we dont want to hear about you make belive world of flying ....... go back to your RC planes and make a wish...

A bird went into the engine and the pilot couldn't control the aircraft any more, so he ejected!

The camera is not actually in the cockpit, it's in the nose of the jet. By the way if you're ever in any kind of aircraft never ever say eject, eject, eject. Ever. plus the forces experienced by ejecting is over 20G!

I wasn't suggesting to eject, it's just that I think it's the ONLY way they may have survived! Coz the aircraft does look like heading for the ground in the end, no? And whatever the G-force is during ejecting, I personally would rather go through them than crashing, no? ;-)

yeah ejecting would be the best way 2 get out but all im saying is that ejecting isn't very nice :) In fact in the RAF (royal air force) you're only allowed 2 eject twice in your whole career! then you're fired

I mean, dumping a 27 million dollar aircraft, if not more, once is already enough, let alone twice! LOL!

but surely a pilots life is worth more than 27 million dollars! The ejecter seats are actually controlled by the weapons division of the air force and actually have firing pins!

The reason why you get the boot from the RAF isn't because of costs its due to the fact that everytime you eject your spinal coloumn is put under so much pressure its crushed causing sometimes serious damage. Hence the reason the limit is set to 2, thats if you make it to the second time round. Personally once would be enough for me!

where do you come up with such bullshit!? Comic books? Get a F**king life you I-want-to-be- a-pilot-but- I'm-too-F**king -s tupid!

It takes someone with a positive IQ to understand and process a single fact without criticising it. What were you drunk when you said that? What's the problem here?

It takes more than a "positive IQ" to talk about something you have no clue about other than what your RC plane did as a kid or what you watched on the Discovery Channel. That comment about 2 ejections and your fired is bullshit. You are bullshit, get your facts straight instead of trying to show off to your boyfriend! Where you smoking crack when you made that comment?
Get a life loser. 2 ejections and your fired....... you F**king douchebag!

we could colonise the moon and get amreica to explode all its nukes, destroying the world 3 times over... bit radical, sure, but who cares? we've got a moon with a heavily fucked orbit then!

And your perfect?

not possible to correct it, i'm very sorry