Posted on 10/28/2017 1:36:37 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Good to know!
Can be pretty scary while flying i often have vultures or sand hill cranes catching thermal updrafts.
You are flying along and these 20+ pound birds come floating up at ya.
But birds are not usually up around 30,000 feet.
Ans the damage here is NOT a bird strike.
Joke about chucking dead birds (e.g. supermarket turkeys) at jets to test ability of plane to survive impact. First group had successes, second group had catastrophic failures. Second team asked first team what they were doing wrong...
That’s one tough bird.
Well Think about this. The plane is traveling at around 500 mph and the bird is flying maybe the opposite direction and the Ray dome is made out of a fiberglass composite so the weather radar can see up ahead.
BINGO!
I told that joke to my wife last night. She enjoyed it immensely, and went to bed chuckling. :-)
There ought to be a thread from time to time, sort of like the "What's your favorite 60's song" threads, where the topic is a punchline, and the thread is about guessing (and of course, reciting) the joke it belongs to. I imagine the thread would also collect a variety of similar jokes, and would make for fun reading...
Of course, a number of them would doubtless end up being transferred to the Smoky Backroom forum after a few comments... :-)
African or European ?
"What....I don't know that.....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH...."
The radar cone is a remove and replace item. As long as the radar receiver behind it isn’t damaged, it could probably be swapped out between flights.
The ray dome is a R&R ‘d item.. I know that having worked on A/V’s 40 years..
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