Posted on 12/30/2008 5:20:15 PM PST by Jeff Chandler
Wait for it.
Ouch! (Rimshot.)
The udder end
If you watch the plane’s left aileron you can see it “bounce” up as it grazes over the top of the cow.
It does look real, and there is very likely damage in the under wing area that we can not see due to the camera placement.
A better look can be had at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPbX8sRfIak and then select “high quality”.
(You may want to turn the sound down first)
I also forgot to add, you can also see the passenger’s head slam forward at the moment the plane contacts the cow.
I will post the story of my dad’s cow strike, on roll out with a C-310, after the comments below.
You will notice the plane doesn’t land straight. Maybe the pilot intentionally curved to the left on rollout, maybe not. You probably noticed the heavy application of rt rudder after impact and during the landing. The cow may have made a last second effort to escape, and may have only had 2 feet on the ground at the moment of impact.
Upon review, I noticed the pilot was looking to the right most of the time, and he was obviously showing off to his passenger without checking the pasture out in advance of making a low pass.
I worked on a wing replacement job back in the summer of 88. An Air Tractor agplane had struck, and broke the top 3 feet off of a powerline brace pole. The pilot was nearly empty of spray, yet he dumped the remainder, and flew under full power, nealy full lt aileron the 12 miles back to the airstrip. It was a hand full after landing as the rt main gear was bent. He went in the office and told his boss: “You better go look at your plane, meanwhile I’m lying down on the couch for a while”.
Steaks on a Plane!
Further review:
I see the full rt rudder was only for a momment after impact and touch down. The hip bone structure is clear on what appears to be a holstein dairy cow, indicating her direction of travel, right as she appears from under the wing. She would appear to have been running in the same direction of travel as the plane. The impact/push was enough to send her tumbling.
No... it is real.
Here is the UK Accident report....
http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/cms_resources/DH82A%20Tiger%20Moth,%20G-AHVV%2012-08.pdf
*LOL*
Thanks. I don’t think I could take anything more graphic than that. ;^)
Cessna 310 cow strike, Oct. 1975:
My family farmed corn/soybeans/hay/...and Angus cattle. My dad was also a small time corporate/charter pilot. Besides hangering the aicraft at an airport 12 miles away, we had a grass strip on the farm that was in the middle of a corn field. Sometimes Dad would land at the farm in darkness, lining up with some of the neighbors barnyard lights.
After harvesting the corn in that field, we would let the cows in for a couple of weeks to glean what the combine missed. So, one night, with a few low passes to one side of the rwy, each pass being closer laterally, stirring up the cows that had camped on the grass for the night. They got up and moved the opposite way; all except for a straggler that had been way off beyond where the passes started (black Angus blend in well with the darkness).
I was home, hopped on the motorcycle, and went to see if there were any stragglers, but couldn’t get there in time. Dad landed, and on rollout, there she came running right to left in front of him. The rt prop struck her and she tumbled under the plane, in between the nose and rt main gear. The prop was bent some, and the spinner dented; could’ve been a lot worse.
Dad taxied it on one engine to the area we kept fenced off with temporary electric fence, and promptly jumped in the pickup to go check the cow. She was up walking with a limp, a cut tendon on a back leg, and no tail at all. Dad was really mad at himself; his cows were more than a way of income. To him, they were almost pets. She became hamburger.
A few months later, the boss bought a newer 310 w/weather radar. The radome was black, and the local airport linecrew teased dad, saying: “look! Ben’s got a plane with a cow bumper on it!”
** Bi-Plane Takes Out A Cow **
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Oh, my goodness!
It sure does!
Check this out. At 0:41, out goes the cow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkOug1c9YCQ&feature=related
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Let me get THIS in now:
HAPPY NEW YEARS, everybody!!!
::jealous SUVs plot so not to be outdone::
The clincher for me: pilot takes the back seat, passenger rides up front in a taildragger. These two jokers are the other way around.
Plus they never put their goggles down. Even my big old fashioned aviator glasses never did it for me, back in the days when I flew Cubs and Pietenpohls.
Well, there was that flying SUV awhile back.
A pilot buddy tipped me off on this video a couple of weeks ago. Too much!
Isn’t this an extreme way to fight bovine flatulence and the effect it may have on the environment?
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