USAF Bombs Yorkshire!!!!

"Rufus" wrote...

We've also disturbed the occasional jack rabbit or burro with a
sand-seeker...

Jack rabbits are better dispatched via the "rabbit rodeo" -- a "road trip" into
the Nevada desert prior to the first brief of the day at Fallon, armed to the
teeth and with plenty of ammo... :-)

"Jim Carriere" wrote in message

One of my friends hit a turkey with a P-3. Or maybe the bird was
hotdogging
and made one pass a bit too close. I guess it isn't any easier to miss a
buzzard than a J-8

The aftermath pictures were interesting. The bird hit the leading edge of
one of the wings, clear of the engines, made a big dent. One end of the
neck was hanging from the dent. The other end was still attached to the
lifeless head. That and a few feathers was about it.

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 ****.

Bill Kambic

P.S. God seems to have a soft spot in His heart for Naval Aviators.

If, by any act, error, or omission, I have, intentionally or
unintentionally, displayed any breedist, disciplinist, sexist, racist,
culturalist, nationalist, regionalist, localist, ageist, lookist, ableist,
sizeist, speciesist, intellectualist, socioeconomicist, ethnocentrist,
phallocentrist, heteropatriarchalist, or other violation of the rules of
political correctness, known or unknown, I am not sorry and I encourage you
to get over it.

"Bill Kambic" wrote in message
...

SNIPPED

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!!!"

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Gizmo

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:54:03 GMT, Rufus wrote:

I thought it was Herb that came in and said "I swear to God, I thought
turkeys could fly", or something to that effect. But my memory could be
off.

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer

Mary Shafer wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:54:03 GMT, Rufus wrote:


I thought it was Herb that came in and said "I swear to God, I thought
turkeys could fly", or something to that effect. But my memory could be
off.


"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

Mary


Yeah - that's it!

But was it Herb that said that, or is my memory fading?..

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- Rufus

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Click on BIRDBALL




"Rufus" wrote in message
news:4o4Nb.55237$na.38840@attbi_s04...
e wrote:

My friend killed a raven airborne over Baker after all the blue meanies
were expended - he hit it with one of the pylons on an F/A-18. The bird
hit the pylon square, rode up the slanted portion of the pylon and right
through the structure between the leading edge flap and the forward spar
of the wing box. He felt it, but as there were no inications of any
trouble in the cockpit, he made a "routine" approach and landing.
Discovered the damage on the postflight walkaround. Those telltale
black feathers...and that hole in the leading edge flap.

Then there was the guy that hit the flock of pelicans on takeoff - five
of them. He got the jet back around and on deck, but not quite as
"routinely"...


i actually hit a raven riding the beast at steamboat
springs. i was coming up the hill to the gas station and he
had just flapped off and banked to grab a thermal.
broke the headlight and dented the ear.
poor guy was messed up but the rangers took him off to a
shelter.

I've hit a few pidgeons with my truck down in south Texas...and narrowly
avoided a flock of turkeys as well. I didn't even think turkeys could
fly...unlike Herb Tarlic...

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- Rufus

Rufus wrote:

But was it Herb that said that, or is my memory fading?..

It was Mr. "Big Guy" Carlson (Gordon Jump).

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My email address: domain, n4vu.com; username, jsm

Novinson's Revolutionary Discovery:
When comes the revolution, things will be different --
not better, just different.

"gizmo-goddard" ) writes:
"Bill Kambic" wrote in message
...

SNIPPED

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....

Mary Shafer ) writes:
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:54:03 GMT, Rufus wrote:

I thought it was Herb that came in and said "I swear to God, I thought
turkeys could fly", or something to that effect. But my memory could be
off.

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

Herb hatched the plan, Les Nessman was the field reporter during the
colour commentary. Les was pretty funny describing the mayhem as 15-20
turkeys pounded into cars etc.. at the shopping Mall. Herb used the "As God
is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." I believe Mr. Carlson
repeated the "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." to the
SPCA investigator.

He wants rooting, shooting and electrocuting for that pitiful excuse - what
is he, a jet jock or a schoolgirl?

RobG

Shawn Hull wrote in message
...
We had a F-117 bomb West Texas last year. He bombed a interstate dumpster
&
somebody's bathroom before he found out he was dropping practice bombs.
He
claimed he didn't know the jet was loaded with them, which may be true.
The
investigation revealed he was running late, missed most of his pre-flight
briefing, his jet crapped out & switched planes at the last minute and
didn't pre-flight it.


"Ken Duffey" wrote in message
...
An item on the BBC news..............

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/3389957.stm

An F-15E from Lakenheath dropped a BDU-33 25lb practice bomb - and made
an 18 in crater.

Is this what they mean by 'Ground Attack' ??
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Flankers Website - http://www.flankers.co.uk/
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