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"James M. Knox" wrote:

"Hilton" wrote in
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You gotta watch MythBusters on the Discovery Channel. The shoot birds
and pumpkins at this Checkee's windows.
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...05X00344&key=1
Moral of the story: Do not fly into chickens, whether or not they are
frozen.

The little plexi windshield didn't surprise me... but when they fired it at
the firewall...

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I have seen a few plane that hit vultures in flight:
A Bonanza that took it in the cowling just below the windshield had a
major dent in the firewall. Fortunately, it did NOT take through the
winsshield!

A Seneca took one in the wingtip -- penetrated the skin and banged it up
prettty bad. This was an Embry-Riddle plane -- they left the dead bird
in the wingtip for several days.

A friend took a vulture about 5 feet o/b of the root on his SX-300 at
240 kt. Fortunately, the bird hit above the LE and made a big dent, with
no spar damage.

One time I was a pax in a Bonanza that hit a flock of pigeons on
takeoff. There was no damage to the Bonanza, but several pigeons died --
including one that entered the cowl. We landed immediately.