Birds at Altitude

"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.

"Andrey Serbinenko" wrote in message
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The highest a bird has ever been spotted is about 38,000 msl.

You may find this web-site interesting: http://www.usahas.com/

And there has been a bird strike at 37,000 feet. See this site for some more
interesting facts. I was impressed at the size of the problem.
http://www.birdstrike.org/commlink/top_ten.htm
--
Jim in NC

"BTIZ" wrote in message
news:0soOg.4204$8J2.2435@fed1read11...
I dodged or rather the bird dodged.. appeared to be an Eagle, Soaring at
FL200 in the mid west, I was in a B-52.. it would have made an ugly mess
if
we had hit.

Yeah, you might have even been required to perform the dreaded 7-engine
approach...

Or the 12 engine take-off...




"Grumman-581" wrote
in message ...
| "BTIZ" wrote in message
| news:0soOg.4204$8J2.2435@fed1read11...
| I dodged or rather the bird dodged.. appeared to be an
Eagle, Soaring at
| FL200 in the mid west, I was in a B-52.. it would have
made an ugly mess
| if
| we had hit.
|
| Yeah, you might have even been required to perform the
dreaded 7-engine
| approach...
|
|

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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Bird brain doesn't need much oxygen to function.


Let's take Skyloon up and prove or disprove that theory.

"BTIZ" wrote in message
news:0soOg.4204$8J2.2435@fed1read11...
I dodged or rather the bird dodged.. appeared to be an Eagle, Soaring at
FL200 in the mid west, I was in a B-52.. it would have made an ugly mess if
we had hit.

I've seen them that high over the Rockies, but never over the mid west.

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote in message
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"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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Bird brain doesn't need much oxygen to function.


Let's take Skyloon up and prove or disprove that theory.

There goes another keyboard! :~)

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

or been pulling crap out of my face.. it would have been a windshield/radome
encounter.

I have inspected other B-52s where the low level flock of ducks came through
the radome and into the crew compartment.. not fun.

BT

"Grumman-581" wrote in message
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"BTIZ" wrote in message
news:0soOg.4204$8J2.2435@fed1read11...
I dodged or rather the bird dodged.. appeared to be an Eagle, Soaring at
FL200 in the mid west, I was in a B-52.. it would have made an ugly mess
if
we had hit.

Yeah, you might have even been required to perform the dreaded 7-engine
approach...

"Grumman-581" wrote in message
...
"BTIZ" wrote in message
news:0soOg.4204$8J2.2435@fed1read11...
I dodged or rather the bird dodged.. appeared to be an Eagle, Soaring at
FL200 in the mid west, I was in a B-52.. it would have made an ugly mess
if
we had hit.

Yeah, you might have even been required to perform the dreaded 7-engine
approach...


Had to ride through a 4 engine approach once... and they were all on the
same side..
BT