"gizmo-goddard" ) writes:
"Bill Kambic" wrote in message
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I took out four seagulls with a T44 one night doing a practice approach at
Navy Dallas (I didn't know seagulls flew at night). We did a "flashlight
visual inspection", noted what appeared to be minor damage to the leading
edge and wing tip (the light still worked), and determined to return to
NAS
Corpus.

Bad idea, as it turned out. The impacts not only damaged the starboard
leading edge but fractured the wing spar. The aircraft was in rebuild for
almost 90 days.

Beechcraft never could build a wing spar worth a good a ****.

A U.S Air Guard C-130 took out about a hundred red-wing blackbirds that were
feeding in the marsh along the south part of the runway at NAS Dallas
several years ago. We had to close the airfield and do a FOD walkdown to
pick up all the pieces-parts. To borrow from BtVS, "EWWW!!!"

Now you know where McNuggets came from....