Dumb question

[Timebuilder]

OUCH! Good one!

Maybe an engine failed, and he forgot to feather.....

 

[ILS JNKY]

birds

One day while doing touch and gos at KLEE we were comming in on 31, just turned to final and started to set up when all of a sudden, this big ugly brown bird leaped from the ground and was at 500ft it no time , wow>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

MAN waht a surprise????????

 

[Timebuilder]

That reminds me.

Last year, I was up with a student doing some night landing practice. The next day, I had the same plane first thing in the morning. The right wing strut had clearly become the last conscious sensation for a common starling, as several feathers were held to the strut by a now hardened substance. We never heard a thing. I'm sure the bird didn't, either.

 

[hobbsmeter]

From Guiness Re: High Flying Birds

Highest recorded altitude for a bird is 37 000 feet, where a vulture collided with an airliner over the Ivory Coast in 1973.