Bird v Airplane

[knight]

This is what happens when two of these



Meet one of these



when the aircraft is hurtling down the runway about to takeoff!











The result looks like this





and results in both engines being sprayed in foam (just got the foam residue left here)



and all mainwheels and brakes being sprayed as well



Which required a double engine change, 4 new mainwheels and 4 new brakes to be fitted.

Edited by knight on Friday 20th May 11:47

[Pints]

3 of those are these:

[Simpo Two]

Good job it happened wqhen it did or you'd be in the Hudson River!

[bob1179]

A couple of meaty birds to really bugger up your evening...

[knight]

All pics are working fine for me

[jenkotvr]

Pints said:

3 of those are these:

Same here

[Simpo Two]

All good here, and have been since posted.

[knight]

Just got to work and the last 3 pics haven't loaded, I'll investigate!

[knight]

Curious, I can see them as thumbnails in my photobucket account but can't open them when I click on them!

[Hooli]

They work fine here.

[Silent1]

All the pictures are working fine

[Prawo Jazdy]

I'm surprised the bird is in one piece. Most of the reports I hear following a birdstrike use words like "remains", "parts" or "debris" to describe what they've found

[knight]

That is what normally happens, but as this bird has been identified as a white stork and has an average weight of somewhere between 2-4 kg I guess it wasn't going through the engine easily!

[kicks]

Christ that's nasty! Do you know what speed it hit at? Did it happen in Heathrow?

[Simpo Two]

knight said:

That is what normally happens, but as this bird has been identified as a white stork and has an average weight of somewhere between 2-4 kg I guess it wasn't going through the engine easily!

Muslim suicide stork...

[Mr. Potato Head]

Compressor blades look good considering that's not a small bird.

Edited by Mr. Potato Head on Friday 20th May 20:56

[knight]

kicks said:

Christ that's nasty! Do you know what speed it hit at? Did it happen in Heathrow?

All I know was, it was prior to "V1" and it was in Beirut

[Hooli]

Simpo Two said:

knight said:

That is what normally happens, but as this bird has been identified as a white stork and has an average weight of somewhere between 2-4 kg I guess it wasn't going through the engine easily!

Muslim suicide stork...

But he said it was white


/stereotype

[Eric Mc]

Most pictures not loading here either.

[perdu]

got 'em each time

Shame for the birdies (and the engines too of course)

but I think there's lots of eating in two birds like that...