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e wrote:

My friend killed a raven airborne over Baker after all the blue meanies
were expended - he hit it with one of the pylons on an F/A-18. The bird
hit the pylon square, rode up the slanted portion of the pylon and right
through the structure between the leading edge flap and the forward spar
of the wing box. He felt it, but as there were no inications of any
trouble in the cockpit, he made a "routine" approach and landing.
Discovered the damage on the postflight walkaround. Those telltale
black feathers...and that hole in the leading edge flap.

Then there was the guy that hit the flock of pelicans on takeoff - five
of them. He got the jet back around and on deck, but not quite as
"routinely"...


i actually hit a raven riding the beast at steamboat
springs. i was coming up the hill to the gas station and he
had just flapped off and banked to grab a thermal.
broke the headlight and dented the ear.
poor guy was messed up but the rangers took him off to a
shelter.

I've hit a few pidgeons with my truck down in south Texas...and narrowly
avoided a flock of turkeys as well. I didn't even think turkeys could
fly...unlike Herb Tarlic...

or kelly bundy.
i hate those freakin bambis running loose. hit one of those
antlered rats and get killed.

Rufus wrote:

e wrote:

My friend killed a raven airborne over Baker after all the blue meanies
were expended - he hit it with one of the pylons on an F/A-18. The bird
hit the pylon square, rode up the slanted portion of the pylon and right
through the structure between the leading edge flap and the forward spar
of the wing box. He felt it, but as there were no inications of any
trouble in the cockpit, he made a "routine" approach and landing.
Discovered the damage on the postflight walkaround. Those telltale
black feathers...and that hole in the leading edge flap.

Then there was the guy that hit the flock of pelicans on takeoff - five
of them. He got the jet back around and on deck, but not quite as
"routinely"...


i actually hit a raven riding the beast at steamboat
springs. i was coming up the hill to the gas station and he
had just flapped off and banked to grab a thermal.
broke the headlight and dented the ear.
poor guy was messed up but the rangers took him off to a
shelter.

I've hit a few pidgeons with my truck down in south Texas...and narrowly
avoided a flock of turkeys as well. I didn't even think turkeys could
fly...unlike Herb Tarlick...

--
- Rufus

Actually it was Mr. Carlson, not Herb. Herb did some other strange
stuff to animals, though. We never saw it but there were reports he got
ducklings to dance by putting them on a hot plate.

Bill Banaszak, MFE
sounds like the civil war lice races.

Wild turkeys can fly, not very far but they can. While shooting one
Eastern Regionals at Quantico from the 1000 yard line I managed to whack
a crow in flight about 600 yards downrange..........sheer dumb luck, big
puff of feathers and bird bits.

Rufus wrote:

I've hit a few pidgeons with my truck down in south Texas...and narrowly
avoided a flock of turkeys as well. I didn't even think turkeys could
fly...unlike Herb Tarlic...

--
- Rufus
coolest thing i ever saw was a pidgeon land on the third
rail at charles street during a torrential downpour. big
flash, greasy cloud of smoke, a few feathers drifting down
and the pidgeon was gone.

John Weiss wrote:
Most of us use the whole airplane for birds... Got 2 ducks at once with an
A-6
once! :-)

Took an eagle in no.2 engine with a B-57 near Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. It sure did
make a mess!
We got even about two months later, overflew a turkey farm SE of Kansas City.
Farmer claimed we killed 3500 turkeys from 500 ft with no weapons on board :-)
Domestic turkeys are dumb critters.

oxmoron1
MFE

Ron wrote:
Rufus wrote:

I've hit a few pidgeons with my truck down in south Texas...and narrowly
avoided a flock of turkeys as well. I didn't even think turkeys could
fly...unlike Herb Tarlic...

Wild turkeys can fly, not very far but they can. While shooting one
Eastern Regionals at Quantico from the 1000 yard line I managed to whack
a crow in flight about 600 yards downrange..........sheer dumb luck, big
puff of feathers and bird bits.

Wild turkeys are *superb* flyers (when threatened, sudden, short
bursts of energy resulting in good climb and high speed not unlike
pheasant or quail).

We always kept our freezer chock full of tasty wild turkey on our
ranch in Northwestern Nebraska. Don't waste your time trying to pluck
their stubborn pinfeathers though -- simply skin 'em and be done with
it.

In message , e
writes

Wild turkeys can fly, not very far but they can. While shooting one
Eastern Regionals at Quantico from the 1000 yard line I managed to whack
a crow in flight about 600 yards downrange..........sheer dumb luck, big
puff of feathers and bird bits.

Rufus wrote:

I've hit a few pidgeons with my truck down in south Texas...and narrowly
avoided a flock of turkeys as well. I didn't even think turkeys could
fly...unlike Herb Tarlic...

--
- Rufus
coolest thing i ever saw was a pidgeon land on the third
rail at charles street during a torrential downpour. big
flash, greasy cloud of smoke, a few feathers drifting down
and the pidgeon was gone.

It must have had very long legs...

Mike
--
M.J.Powell

(OXMORON1) wrote:

Took an eagle in no.2 engine with a B-57 near Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. It
sure did make a mess!
We got even about two months later, overflew a turkey farm SE of Kansas City.
Farmer claimed we killed 3500 turkeys from 500 ft with no weapons on board :-)

Yup. When scared, domestic turkeys or chickens will pile up in a
corner and smother each other to death.

Domestic turkeys are dumb critters.

So are clueless military aviators who think buzzing livestock is
funny (hint: guess who ended up buying all those dead turkeys?)

Mike Marron commented without knowing the facts:

So are clueless military aviators who think buzzing livestock is
funny (hint: guess who ended up buying all those dead turkeys?)


Sorry Mike, but the turkey farm was dead on the centerline of a published
lowlevel training route (legal to 500ftAGL). The turkey farm was built after
the lowlevel route was established, 8 years after IIRC.
The training route was well know to the population, especially the conservation
people.

I will admit that the nudist colony NW of Hutchison, KS was not on the
centerline of that route, but it was within the approved corridor. And we were
looking for red commie infiltrators from Nebraska, and we were 500ft AGL there
also, legal again.

Then again you probably want to complain about the tip tanks we punched off
after the eagle strike. JP-4 laden drop tanks are a bit hard to climb with in a
crippled airplane on a hot day. We probably created a hazardous waste situation
that someone had to clean up, but the option was a flaming crash and dead
bodies.

And to steal from Geoge Gobel, during that entire time period, not a communist
unit larger than a platoon infiltrated south of the Iowa and Nebraska state
lines without being detected.

oxmoron1
MFE

Bill Banaszak wrote:


I've hit a few pidgeons with my truck down in south Texas...and narrowly
avoided a flock of turkeys as well. I didn't even think turkeys could
fly...unlike Herb Tarlick...

--
- Rufus

Actually it was Mr. Carlson, not Herb. Herb did some other strange
stuff to animals, though. We never saw it but there were reports he got
ducklings to dance by putting them on a hot plate.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Y'know it was a big loss when that series was removed, I loved
it.

That and Carter Country..."Handle it, handle it!..."
--

-Gord.

"Rufus" wrote in message
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My friend killed a raven airborne over Baker after all the blue meanies
were expended - he hit it with one of the pylons on an F/A-18.

Our battalion ops sergeant killed a raven with his motorcycle helmet at
highway speed - he managed to stay upright, but he was a little shaken for
the rest of the day.

Glenn D.,