Abstract Art

[Dawger]

Last night we were zipping along at 320 knots (Indicated) (Thats really fast) at 10,000 feet.

I was in the right seat making a radio call when I heard what sounded like a fastball smacking the catcher's mitt.

 

Indeed it was quite the fast ball on the inside edge of the strike zone.

 

It painted quite a picture. Blood, feathers, bone and guts in a pink spray fanning out to the stark white of the feces overlaid on a backdrop of the Houston cityscape at night.

 

The other pilot looked like he had seen a ghost and sat in stunned silence for several seconds. I had my phone camera out before he moved. Finally, he made a few exclamations as he processed what had happened.

No cracks and no penetration so it was likely a pretty small bird.

Only my third night kill.

[FLS]

Paint a bird silhouette on the nose. 

[GScholz]

Very Jackson Pollock... 

[APDrone]

[eagl]

At 540kts groundspeed and 500' AGL at night, the same event flexes the canopy enough to cause an overpressure that feels like getting smacked hard in the face/head.  The smear ends up being roughly the same in color/texture but narrower and longer (4 ft long, 6-9 inches wide in my case).

[puller]

At 540kts groundspeed and 500' AGL at night, the same event flexes the canopy enough to cause an overpressure that feels like getting smacked hard in the face/head.  The smear ends up being roughly the same in color/texture but narrower and longer (4 ft long, 6-9 inches wide in my case).

  

[USCH]

Only my third night kill.




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Did you tell him you feel like a real 110 pilot?

[Serenity]

At 540kts groundspeed and 500' AGL at night, the same event flexes the canopy enough to cause an overpressure that feels like getting smacked hard in the face/head.  The smear ends up being roughly the same in color/texture but narrower and longer (4 ft long, 6-9 inches wide in my case).

Jesus... at least the canopy held. The last cockpit-hit we took in the Goshawk went right through the canopy, knocked the SNA unconscious, splattered the divider with blood, and left the IP thinking his stud had been decapitated! Happened coming in for the break, no less. Hearing the story told was hilarious (Because the IP just saw his stud's head dangling at a NOT normal angle, and really did think the kids head had been cut off!)

[MiloMorai]

Friend was out testing his tunnel race boat just before dusk and hit a flock of ducks at ~100mph. What a mess - blood, feather and other stuff over the boat and him.

[zack1234]

Meat is murder

[DaveBB]

Bird strikes are no joke.  A single bird brought down a B-1b on a low level training sortie once.

[MiloMorai]

Bird strikes are no joke.  A single bird brought down a B-1b on a low level training sortie once.

And an airliner over NYC that landed in the Hudson.

[Serenity]

And an airliner over NYC that landed in the Hudson.

I think that was more than a single bird

[SFRT - Frenchy]

My heli was flying at 1,000 ft and a RABBIT flew thru the window.  Beat that! 

[Serenity]

My heli was flying at 1,000 ft and a RABBIT flew thru the window.  Beat that!