On Thursday, March 6, 2014 12:52:00 PM UTC-7, Bill D wrote:
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:36:42 AM UTC-7, rlovinggood wrote:

I've thought about what might happen if a bird and I were to collide in flight. How about running into a fish?

In the summer of 2006 at the Val Air Gliderport in Durango, CO we had an osprey struggling to fly over the runway dive bombed by an eagle and dropped the heavy trout it was trying to carry away from a nearby fishing pond. The sleek fish lawn darted into the runway just ahead of the tow plane pulling a glider. No air strike by a fish, but a close one anyway. That made for some flying fish comments that evening.





http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fish-str...ir-force-base/







Ray



IIRC, an Alaska Airlines jet hit a fish when taking off from Juneau. They had frightened a Bald Eagle into dropping its catch. It left a clear fish-shaped dent in the skin just behind the side cockpit window. The flight safely returned to Juneau.