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January 21st 09, 07:37 PM
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Geese at 18000ft
On Jan 20, 12:58*pm, "
wrote: Havent posted this for a while but it will make you think when you are next flying commercial. Way back in distant time I was having some fun on a wave flight out of *Minden when we saw 100's of Canada geese *wave soaring. *While we were capped to FL18 there were lots of Geese above us in the FL19-20 range. With the A320 in the Hudson imagine ploughing into these guys at 3-500 mph on the approach to RNO. http://silentflight.com/P0000385.JPG http://silentflight.com/P0000386.JPG Full archive is here. http://silentflight.com/Gliding/Phot.../archive_3.htm Cheers Al A few years ago a friend and I made a short film about bird strikes abatement at JFK airport. Here it is on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVgCWo-EoiE Perhaps I should have started a new thread for this? 
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