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Plane-crashes because of collision with bees ???



 
 
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Old February 9th 05, 05:13 AM
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Default Plane-crashes because of collision with bees ???

I heard that a collision between a plane and a bee can be devastating.

Is that true ?
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Old February 9th 05, 05:23 AM
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If it's an open cockpit and the bee hits the pilot, sure.

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Old February 9th 05, 05:26 AM
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In article ,
(Dan Simper) wrote:

I heard that a collision between a plane and a bee can be devastating.

Is that true ?




Yes -- for the bee!
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Old February 9th 05, 08:08 PM
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Dan Simper wrote:
I heard that a collision between a plane and a bee can be

devastating.

Is that true ?


I have a hard time imagining a common scenario where this could
happen. A bee hitting an airplane will usually just go Splat!

A few years ago I had the misfortune of riding my motorcycle through
a swarm of large bumble bees at 85 mph. The impacts were a little
painful, but certainly not dangerous. The worst part was having to
spend about 15 min. digging fried bee goo out of the cooling fins on my
cylinders.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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Old February 9th 05, 08:13 PM
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Dan Simper wrote:
I heard that a collision between a plane and a bee can be

devastating.

Is that true ?



I have a hard time imagining a common scenario where this could
happen. A bee hitting an airplane will usually just go Splat!

A few years ago I had the misfortune of riding my motorcycle through
a swarm of large bumble bees at 85 mph. The impacts were a little
painful, but certainly not dangerous. The worst part was having to
spend about 15 min. digging fried bee goo out of the cooling fins on my
cylinders.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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Old February 9th 05, 08:21 PM
Dan Luke
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"Dan Simper" wrote:
I heard that a collision between a plane and a bee can be devastating.

Is that true ?


It might have been the "golden beebee" that you heard about.

That's a single, lucky shot from the ground that hits just the right spot on
the airplane (or the pilot) to bring it down.
--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM


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Old February 9th 05, 10:58 PM
Bob Chilcoat
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I swallowed a bee once while riding my bicycle to work. Stung me in the
back of my throat. Since I worked in a hospital, and was only a couple of
miles from there, already at speed with my heart rate up, I figured my best
option was to keep going, hoping my airway didn't obstruct before I got
there. Went straight up to my department (anesthesia), grabbed the first
anesthesiologist I saw and told him what had happened. We went straight
down to the ENT clinic and they found a bee sting sticking in the back of my
throat behind the uvula. I felt terrible for hours. A bee can certainly
bring down a bikie. I have serious doubts about an airplane, though.

OTOH, I heard once of a 172 that was nearly brought down when the pilots
opened the air vents after takeoff and out came a swarm of angry wasps that
had nested in the air vent intake while the plane was on the ground. I
think that was in "I learned about flying from that" 25 years ago or so.
Ouch!

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


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Dan Simper wrote:
I heard that a collision between a plane and a bee can be

devastating.

Is that true ?


I have a hard time imagining a common scenario where this could
happen. A bee hitting an airplane will usually just go Splat!

A few years ago I had the misfortune of riding my motorcycle through
a swarm of large bumble bees at 85 mph. The impacts were a little
painful, but certainly not dangerous. The worst part was having to
spend about 15 min. digging fried bee goo out of the cooling fins on my
cylinders.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)



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Old February 10th 05, 12:18 AM
George Patterson
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Bob Chilcoat wrote:

OTOH, I heard once of a 172 that was nearly brought down when the pilots
opened the air vents after takeoff and out came a swarm of angry wasps that
had nested in the air vent intake while the plane was on the ground.


I had a wasp come in the air intake of a 150 on final once. I made the mid-field
exit, pulled the mixture, and said "your airplane" as I went out the door.

George Patterson
He who would distinguish what is true from what is false must have an
adequate understanding of truth and falsehood.
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Old February 10th 05, 01:10 AM
Ben Jackson
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On 2005-02-09, Dan Simper wrote:
I heard that a collision between a plane and a bee can be devastating.


It's not so much the bees, it's what the rest of the tree with the
nest does that really causes problems.

--
Ben Jackson

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Old February 10th 05, 02:29 AM
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And did the instructor hang around to taxi the plane?

Seems like a good argument for the mesh I've seen in some plane's vent
inlets.

-Malcolm Teas

 




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