Isis is recruiting birds.
Posted on 05/07/2015 6:03:12 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
These incredible photos show the damage caused by a bird strike to a passenger plane.
The Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to Nevehir in Turkey was on approach to land when it was involved in a severe hit with a unlucky bird.
There were 125 passengers on board the Boeing 737-800, and there were not believed to be any injuries suffered on the landing on Tuesday.
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What bird is that? Some species of eagle?
It’s a radar dome. I don’t believe it is made of metal in order to be transparent to the microwaves sent/received. It is not physically important to flight save for streamlining. Much ado about nothing. Now engine strike? That’s a big deal
Yes, the skin of the fuselage is made of aluminum, but the nose cone isn’t (there is a radar behind the cone).
A spokesperson for Turkish Airlines told MailOnline Travel: ‘The damage of the nose area (radome) by bird hit is a common incident on civil aeronautical operations.
‘The radome area of a plane is constructed by soft materials (composit) to minimalize the impact of such hits.
‘Therefore, such standard/normal deformation occurs as a natural result of such incidents.
I second the poster who replied first, but it is also the type of glass composite used. Much more like car glass, I think. I.e., safety glass, that pops out as well as does not split apart.
Ya know, BB was supposed to be a passenger on Challenger...just caught that little detail the other day.
Soft composites. Interesting. I don’t know much about composites, except most I’ve dealt with are much more like fiberglass and tend to just crack and break, not deform.
And yes, I’ve worked in air design, but more just electronics and not radome area.
Isis is recruiting birds.
Didn’t something like this happen to Michael Jackson’s nose?
What a goose was doing at 16,000 feet was his business?
That will buff right out.
We flew to Mexico on a plane and the nose had several strips of duct tape on it. When we came home, obviously the same plane, the duct tape was clearly visible under a coat of fresh paint.
I don’t think Aero Mexico is around anymore.
Yeah, I heard the same thing.
A dead one.
I would guess a goose flying at 16,000 feet is avoiding big eagles. Birds do fly over high mountains, like the Rockies and the Himalyas, you know.
Go look up “chicken gun”. It’s the legend of testing a new fighter jet canopy for bird impact resistance. Seems someone had the idea that chickens were representative of what would impact a jet at high speed, so they built a gun capable of firing chickens at high speed. The canopy failed spectacularly. So did the next one tested. Upon redesign, it still failed. Then someone realized that the chickens were acting more like rocks than birds for a reason: procurement was obtaining, and testers firing, FROZEN chickens. Then someone realized that he drove past a chicken farm every day, and could get ‘em - unfrozen & live - cheap. The police were called when the farmer became concerned about some weirdo buying one chicken every morning for weeks.
BTW: at high speeds, birds act like a liquid on impact. And somewhere there’s a glorious video of testing a bird strike on a jet turbine ... think “deli slicer”.
Look up the 1957 movie “The Giant Claw”. You’ll find it there.
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