Air Force 2 Has Bird Strike

[Stingray Don]

The plane continued, but the bird was not as fortunate.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/...es-plane-hits-bird-while-leaving-indianapolis

 

[X3 Skier]

From the article:

"According to CNN, officials said the Boeing 757-200 engines were designed to ingest the occasional bird. There was no damage to the plane."

From the Audubon Society:

"The bird was evidently not designed to be ingested."

Cheers

 

[Pilawt]

If it's just an occasional bird, what is it the rest of the time?

My wife tells me we have occasional chairs, too. They still look like chairs every time I check.

 

[deonb]

My wife tells me we have occasional chairs, too.

Do you put those around a periodic table?

 

[Pilawt]

Do you put those around a periodic table?

Okay, now that's funny right there.

 

[frfly172]

The VP is not a lucky passenger.

 

[GlennAB1]

From the article:

"According to CNN, officials said the Boeing 757-200 engines were designed to ingest the occasional bird. There was no damage to the plane."

Yeah, they eat birds all the time with a rare occasion causing damage, both, the P&W and RR engines.

 

[flyingron]

"The bird was evidently not designed to be ingested."

Well, I'm glad he has been dealt with accordingly.

 

[X3 Skier]

Yeah, they eat birds all the time with a rare occasion causing damage, both, the P&W and RR engines.

I know that since I used to witness the "chicken gun" tests of windshields and canopies at AEDC and a lot of bird and ice ingestion testing on USAF engines at both GE and PWA. Dropped the whole fan off a B-1 engine on one very severe ice ingestion test.

Cheers

 

[Matthew]

 

[RJM62]

I hear PETA is staging a protest this afternoon...

Rich

 

[Cap'n Jack]

AF-2 ran into an errant tweet?

 

[Pilawt]

Another of those dang carbon-based autonomous drones ...

 

[Rushie]

the Boeing 757-200 engines were designed to ingest the occasional bird.

Yum. I'm designed to ingest the occasional bird. I'm hungry.

 

[AKBill]

What's PETA?

 

[deonb]

What's PETA?

Militant version of the humane society

 

[GlennAB1]

I know that since I used to witness the "chicken gun" tests of windshields and canopies at AEDC and a lot of bird and ice ingestion testing on USAF engines at both GE and PWA. Dropped the whole fan off a B-1 engine on one very severe ice ingestion test.
Cheers

As an Inspector for an airline that operates more than a hundred 757-200s, I'm continually involved with bird strike/ingestion inspections.

 

[Clark1961]

What's PETA?

People Eating Tasty Animals

 

[Clark1961]

Yum. I'm designed to ingest the occasional bird. I'm hungry.

Lucky for you many birds are designed to be ingested.

 

[RJM62]

What's PETA?

Domestic terror organization nominally dedicated to animal rights.

Rich

 

[455 Bravo Uniform]

The VP is not a lucky passenger.

Yeah, didn't his plane also run off the end of a runway out east towards the end of the election campaign?