Bird vs. F-16

AdamZ

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This is amazing. following are not my words by the way.

Here's one you don't see every day. The result of a bird strike on an
F-16. Read the text below FIRST, then watch the video.

Amazing 45 second sequence. You may have to Re-play to see the bird that
entered the engine. Go to large screen if you can. This is footage from
the cockpit of an F-16. Cool reaction and professionalism of the two
pilots,including cockpit transmission with video. F-16 engine ingests
bird after takeoff @ Tyndall AFB Panama City, FL. Think you might find
it interesting to see a crash from the cockpit of an airplane. It is an
instructor pilot in the rear and a student in the front seat of an F-16.
A "Bird Strike," as seen through the Heads Up Display (HUD). You can see
the bird flash by just prior to impacting the engine. You can hear the
aircraft voice warning system telling them they have a problem and
referring to the "D-6 NL" which means there is no engine RPM. They made
2 attempts to relight the jet engine, but evidently there was too much
damage from the bird strike and they had to eject. These guys were very
cool; note the heavy breathing.
They certainly flew longer than one would expect before ejecting.
Airspeed can be observed on the HUD's upper left corner. It goes down to
the low 120's as they struggle to get the engine going again, but as the
plane noses over and dives to earth it increases to at least 175 just
before impact. It just goes to show how quickly your day can go to
pieces - 45 seconds from strike to ejection. All and all, not bad. They
ran the Emergency Checklist, made two relight attempts, and picked out a
plowed field for impact before ejecting.
You can follow the audio attached to it and hear the conversation
between the pilot and instructor pilot and then the tower. Including the
pilot saying they were punching out. The tower didn't seem to completely
understand it all, and missed the significance of the last transmission.
The towers last radio call, he's talking to an empty aircraft. The video
continues until impact, even after they both eject. A classic "buying
the farm" as you can see the plow rows get bigger. A real nice job from
the aircrew by keeping their cool and turning the aircraft away from
populated areas. No one hurt and no one killed but the dirty bird did
cost the Taxpayers a "few" million dollars!

 
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have you read the never again in AOPA Pilot this month about the Baron that took one through the windshield? a 4 pound hawk took out the windscreen, partially blinded the pilot and basically caused all hell to break loose. guy managed to get it back on the ground though. Ive had tons of close calls in the last few weeks with the birds migrating back now, plus thermals are starting so the seagulls and hawks are soaring again.
 
Back a long time ago I remember an F4 that hit a goose. The pilot was really messed up. His shoulder was all tore up, the plane was smashed, the WSO had to fly it to a landing. Which he did as he did not want to eject as the canopy was so messed up. A crew chief on the ground had to climb in over the engine intake and reach into the cockpit shut down the engines.
 
Thats pretty cool someone from my home town works with bird detection and aircraft.
 
smigaldi said:
Back a long time ago I remember an F4 that hit a goose. The pilot was really messed up. His shoulder was all tore up, the plane was smashed, the WSO had to fly it to a landing. Which he did as he did not want to eject as the canopy was so messed up. A crew chief on the ground had to climb in over the engine intake and reach into the cockpit shut down the engines.
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This was a huge problem in the Swedish Air Force as well and since we were surrounded by sea, seagulls where the largest problem.
I was lucky but several ac went down due to collisions with seagulls.
The AF actually tested and the claimed that the impact of a seagull hitting an ac flying a M0.8 was equalent to about 34 tons!! More than enough to cause serious damage.
 
Capflyer said:
This was a huge problem in the Swedish Air Force as well and since we were surrounded by sea, seagulls where the largest problem.
I was lucky but several ac went down due to collisions with seagulls.
The AF actually tested and the claimed that the impact of a seagull hitting an ac flying a M0.8 was equalent to about 34 tons!! More than enough to cause serious damage.
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A buddy of mine worked in the lab at Wright-Pat that did a lot of that testing, he was one of the engineers who shot chickens at the plane canopies. Later, when I met him we were working on large space structures. We would build these things and bang them with calibrated hammers and measure the vibrational modes. Every once and a while when he was working we would throw rubber chickens at him or his experiment for a laugh.
 
AdamZ said:
This is footage from
the cockpit of an F-16. Cool reaction and professionalism of the two
pilots,including cockpit transmission with video. F-16 engine ingests
bird after takeoff @ Tyndall AFB Panama City, FL. Think you might find
it interesting to see a crash from the cockpit of an airplane. It is an
instructor pilot in the rear and a student in the front seat of an F-16.
A "Bird Strike," as seen through the Heads Up Display (HUD).
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Notice they took 120 kts of energy and turned it into 2000' of altitude by hauling back to a steep deck angle...
 
smigaldi said:
A buddy of mine worked in the lab at Wright-Pat that did a lot of that testing, he was one of the engineers who shot chickens at the plane canopies. Later, when I met him we were working on large space structures. We would build these things and bang them with calibrated hammers and measure the vibrational modes. Every once and a while when he was working we would throw rubber chickens at him or his experiment for a laugh.
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Did you see that episode of Mythbusters where they compared what would hit the hardest, a frozen or a not frozen chicken? Kinda hilarious!..:D.
 
You guys are right.... it was not an F-16... i beleive it was a Canadian airplane, but not entirely sure...
 
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