I once shared a thermal with a red tail hawk up to 5000 MSL. I was on one side
of thermal and he was on the other side. I always wonder about that. Could he
go as fast as I was or could I go as slow as he was?

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:47:40 -0400, "John Gaquin"
wrote:


"Judah" wrote in message

What's the highest altitude that you ever saw a bird swoop past your
plane?

I hit a bird one night at 9500 over Long Island sound in a 402.
Clarification: I presume it was a bird - I saw nothing, just heard a very
loud BANG as something caromed off the windshield.



GeorgeC