USAF Bombs Yorkshire!!!!

coolest thing i ever saw was a pidgeon land on the third
rail at charles street during a torrential downpour. big
flash, greasy cloud of smoke, a few feathers drifting down
and the pidgeon was gone.

It must have had very long legs...

Mike
i don't pretend to know how it grounded, but it did.

Bill Banaszak wrote:
Rufus wrote:

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 Tarlick...

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- Rufus


Actually it was Mr. Carlson, not Herb. Herb did some other strange
stuff to animals, though. We never saw it but there were reports he got
ducklings to dance by putting them on a hot plate.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

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.

Yeah - I recall the dancing ducklings...

--
- Rufus

Yeah - they only lifted across the road and then landed.

Was recently surprised by a roadrunner doing the same thing - I thought
they were ground-bound as well, but I recently saw one cruise over a fence.

--
- Rufus

Ron wrote:

Wild turkeys can fly, not very far but they can. While shooting one
Eastern Regionals at Quantico from the 1000 yard line I managed to whack
a crow in flight about 600 yards downrange..........sheer dumb luck, big
puff of feathers and bird bits.

Rufus wrote:


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...

--
- Rufus

e wrote:

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...


or kelly bundy.
i hate those freakin bambis running loose. hit one of those
antlered rats and get killed.

I had one hit ME once...I was cruising slowly off base out east one
night when a big brown blob sailed over my windshield. I hit the
brakes, and the second one leaped straight into my right rear fender.
Glad it was a rental...

I think that the guy in the pickup behind me must have clubbed it out
with a Maglite and thrown it in the back...it was stunned and kicking in
the street the first time I looked, the second time it was gone and the
guy was getting back in his truck.

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- Rufus

Glenn Dowdy wrote:

"Rufus" wrote in message
news:Os2Nb.51794$8H.103170@attbi_s03...

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.


Our battalion ops sergeant killed a raven with his motorcycle helmet at
highway speed - he managed to stay upright, but he was a little shaken for
the rest of the day.

Glenn D.,



I took a one inch nut in the forehead at about 75 mph on the highway
once. It disloged from a semi goin the opposite direction and hit me
just above my right eye, between my glasses and my helmet. I saw it
come loose an hit the deck...I had managed to avoid it, but my pal in
front of me rode over it, kicked it back up, and it hit me. Don't know
why the thing didn't crack my skull open...but I didn't do more than
flinch and stayed upright.

It wasn't until we got to his place and I removed my helmet and he saw
the dried blood and the gash that he figured out had happened...

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- Rufus

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 06:05:54 GMT, "John R Weiss"
wrote:

"Mary Shafer" wrote...

I have a friend who killed a raven out on the China Lake range but I
can't remember if he used Blue Death From Above or a real bomb.

Most of us use the whole airplane for birds... Got 2 ducks at once with an A-6
once! :-)

This raven was sitting on the ground (well, probably on part of the
target or something, not the actual ground) when my friend dropped the
ordnance on it, I think from an F/A-18. It wasn't a bird strike in
flight.

Mary

--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer

"Mary Shafer" wrote...

This raven was sitting on the ground (well, probably on part of the
target or something, not the actual ground) when my friend dropped the
ordnance on it, I think from an F/A-18. It wasn't a bird strike in
flight.

Now THAT would have been REALLY impressive -- taking a bird out of mid-air with
"blue death"!

Mary Shafer wrote:

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 06:05:54 GMT, "John R Weiss"
wrote:


"Mary Shafer" wrote...

I have a friend who killed a raven out on the China Lake range but I
can't remember if he used Blue Death From Above or a real bomb.

Most of us use the whole airplane for birds... Got 2 ducks at once with an A-6
once! :-)


This raven was sitting on the ground (well, probably on part of the
target or something, not the actual ground) when my friend dropped the
ordnance on it, I think from an F/A-18. It wasn't a bird strike in
flight.

Mary


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

--
- Rufus

I wonder how many electronics subcomponents (condensers, diodes, etc.) in
that missile were "Made in the Peoples Republic of China"?

Turns Lenin's quote about selling capitalists the rope with which to hang
them on its head.

--
Mike Kanze

"If it's good enough to get shot at in, it's good enough to wear to
McDonalds."

- CDR Doug "Woody" Beal, USN (Referring to the wearing of military uniform
clothing, like flight suits, off-base.)


"Darrell A. Larose" wrote in message
...
"Norman Lever" ) writes:
But there's no Chinese embassy in Yorkshire, is there??

Odd how the Chinese spies were stealing US mapping technology, until a
"smart bomb" dropped in their embassy's front window. Oooppps must be a
faulty map. I don't believe in coincedences

Rufus wrote:

Yeah - they only lifted across the road and then landed.

Was recently surprised by a roadrunner doing the same thing - I thought
they were ground-bound as well, but I recently saw one cruise over a fence.


You have been unduly influenced by Warner Bros.

Bill Banaszak, MFE