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- koontzorama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+91Only 7 pics!?!?! I was really hoping there could at least be 8 of the EXACT SAME THING.........
- unfinite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+82Bird wins! That dent is going to cost a fortune to repair.
- poimaino, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30So this is that Chinese missile launch I heard about on the news?
- cuoops, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27This is uncalled for. What if the bird's family sees these pictures?
- yujie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26O rly?
- kirakun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23You mean the plane or the bird? :)
- Rhelim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21YA RLY!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22The bird hates freedom.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20@hambend
Can't you tell? That bird won so hard, his head asploded. - danakin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20im in ur wingz, bleedin on ur missilez
- Ascendant, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19ENOUGH! I have HAD IT with these ***** BIRDS on this ***** PLANE!!!
- Rhelim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14....That's what she said.
- wafflez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14why have i seen so many 'knuttz.com' postings today?
- VenDrake, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14>> Bird wins! That dent is going to cost a fortune to repair.
If you think that's expensive, try repairing the bird. - Dvoid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12O RRY?
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I'm sorry, but I really do need a description. Would it be a funny joke? A lame video? How the hell would I know. Just type "Pictures of a plane's wing after a bird crash into it."
- hambend, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14That bird does not look like a winner to me.
- D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9SRSLY?
- Managore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird
- Rhelim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I, personally, found the advertisement on their website, right in the middle of the pictures, of the guy going under the bus, a great deal more entertaining than the bird thing.
- SirBriggs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I thought it was a race or something. I'm probably just slow, though.
- AkshayGenius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Was I the only one looking for a video of a race between a jet and a bird?
- counterstriker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7it has already been blent!
- Chairboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I was doing a high speed touch & go at KEUG last year. Came in over the threshold at about 100 kts, practicing no flaps, hot approaches. I bleed off my speed in float, then set it down on the mains, hold it for a little before putting the nosewheel down (to avoid a nasty shimmy). I firewalled the throttle, and just as I was starting to take off, I see a bird sitting in the middle of the runway in front of me. I'm taking off, and the bird sees me at the last minute and jumps up into the air, taking off. Everything turns into slow motion, I can see each of his wing beats as he struggles to get up before this big loud metal thing eats him.
He climbs up and just barely clears the prop arc (we're talking maybe a couple inches between his legs and cuisinart) but still manages to hit the roof of the plane. I actually hear him "thump" against it. I'm committed, so I continue my takeoff, make sure it's flying right, then head back to 77S. I land, then climb up to check out the top of the plane. No scratch, no dent, no bird. I imagine how things would have been different if he had taken off a half second later, I would have had a windshield covered in gore. I imagine that might be.... distracting.
Birds and planes can be a scary combo. One thing to remember when flying, if you see that you're about to intersect one, your best bet is to climb. Most birds will instinctively dive to dodge an aerial threat (it's faster). - BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5NO WAI!
- khyberkitsune, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4more like
Bird: 1
Jet: $3,000,000 - ub3rgeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5YA WAI!
- g3r4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Do have some plans you're not telling us, numerous6?
- arjayl642, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Um, cool.
What's with all these digg articles from knuttz.net? Find something original for the sake of Christ. - BadassCheese, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Enough with the Knutts.
*waits for "that's what she said" style responce* - koontzorama, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@Chairboy
Can you please use some more jargon I don't understand? Thanks for making me feel stupid.
/sarcasm - milkmage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3wow. bird flying that fast that low?
lucky it didn't hit a person. - dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I believe Corey Feldman said it best when he proclaimed, "Whoa, RADICAL!!!"
- Zidul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I spent like 15 mins looking at the rodent vs. tree picture until i realised the rodent had won.
i kept lookin for the carcuss.. - Ascendant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Seriously... there have been way too many stories from this site. Something is fishy is going on.
Also, I keep seeing all these stories from this site called youtube.com. Someone must be gaming digg. - soundtech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4OMFG STFU!
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So did somebody explain it to her?
- shaug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Q: What went through the bird's mind right before it died?
A: Its ass. - TheBigBrother, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i bet we're gonna see an explanation for all this knutts stuff on the front page soon
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well it's better then them just always wondering isn't it?
- blahtastic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5You do realize there is nothing funny about rodents vs tree, right? Thats what they're supposed to and expected to do... If the people who own that site think it's funny in some way they're insane (but mostly they're just media grabbing whores).
- orientis, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7***** Christ, do it for my sake.
- airshowfan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes, like SirBriggs, from the title I thought it was a race, like these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UslTJ-ADDmo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Q9vg-ML9c
The Brazilian AT-26 Xavante pilot got off easy. Not so lucky was this Canadian CT-155 Hawk pilot, whose jet engine ingested a bird:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd57bR8FKKQ - GooyBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The first thing to go through the birds mind after impact was its ass.
- m00dy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.duggmirror.com
- Ascendant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You must be one of those people who thought the movie "Speed" should have been titled "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down"
- JoeyDeacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In an issue of Meat & Poultry magazine, editors quoted from "Feathers," the publication of the California Poultry Industry Federation, telling the following story:
The US Federal Aviation Administration has a unique device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a gun that launches a dead chicken at a plane's windshield at approximately the speed the plane flies.
The theory is that if the windshield doesn't crack from the carcass impact, it'll survive a real collision with a bird during flight.
It seems the British were very interested in this and wanted to test a windshield on a brand new, speedy locomotive they're developing.
They borrowed FAA's chicken launcher, loaded the chicken and fired.
The ballistic chicken shattered the windshield, broke the engineer's chair and embedded itself in the back wall of the engine's cab. The British were stunned and asked the FAA to recheck the test to see if everything was done correctly.
The FAA reviewed the test thoroughly and had one recommendation:
"Use a thawed chicken."
[Collected on the Internet, 1994]
Presumably you know that aerospace companies often fire chickens at test aircraft canopies to see how they would stand up to flying through a flock of birds during takeoff? This is true of British Aerospace also, however one time it went wrong.
Just before lunch, the engineers set up the chicken-cannon, loaded a frozen chicken into it, and left for the canteen. The chicken would be just about defrosted by the time they got back to do the test. When they came back, they got behind the protective wall, started the high-speed cameras (to play back in detail what happens), and fired the chicken at the canopy. Normally, it should just bounce off, or make a nasty dent. This time, the canopy was destroyed. Bits everywhere. Having checked the cannon, and looked through the (expensive) wreckage, they decided to view the film, to see if it would provide any clues. It did. During lunch, a cat had climbed into the cannon, lured by the smell of fresh chicken, became part of the test. - BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2God that website has so many god damn adverts that the guy who made the site is probably making a fortune off of digg.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2YEARLY!
- TheZorch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The Air Force spent millions of dollars in the 1980's developing bird proof cockpit windows for jets. If a jet hit a bird at cruising speed the impact would be enough to either severely injure or even kill the pilot. Of course it would have to be a large bird like a duck, swan, crane, or some other large high flying avian species.
Pigeons and Seaguls are menaces to airports. They can get sucked into the jet intakes and do some damage during take offs and landings. -
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