Posted on 01/15/2009 12:47:38 PM PST by Red Steel
Breaking now of Fox News.
Wonder what the tide schedules are.
Pretty soon, the thing might start floating towards Albany!
The story goes that the FAA was studying methods for design regulations to guard against bird strikes. They came up with the idea of an air cannon to fire 4 pound chicken carcasses against windshields at 500 miles per hour. But when the specs got written up, they came up with the requirement that the cannon should fire a 500 pound chicken at 4 miles per hour.
The real problem would occur when the chickenwire came loose and got ingested ...
Bird strikes are rare ... it’s actually easier to make engines inherently birdstrike resistant, than to try to keep the birds out.
Still, the laws of physics are what they are.
Wow! So be basically glided the thing down the Hudson VFR corridor??? I see from the tracks that he cleared the GW by about 1000ft, and flew about 200ft above a no-doubt very alarmed copter. He still had a ways to go when he dropped off radar at 500ft. I’ve flown down that corridor many times myself — I can’t imagine how I’d react if I looked up and saw an A-320 gliding down above me!
Well, I just did a search, found this?
http://www.vos.noaa.gov/MWL/aug_07/toc.shtml
Not sure if they’re current?
If he was to the back of the plane that doesn’t surprise me at all... it takes forever to get off these planes in the best of circumstances and they all had to go forward to the front exit doors.
LOL
At JFK they used to use air cannons of some sort (they made booming sounds) to chase the geese and gulls.
Prayers for the passengers and rescuers
I just sent an e-mail to NY Waterways Ferry service to thank their crews for their sure, fast rescue.
Perhaps the rest of you could overload their server.
customerservice@nywaterway.com
Excellent link.
LOL!
Or a former bush pilot perhaps.?
Took some skill and effort by both pilots here. They had one chance at it and did everything right.Kudos to them!
Mike - as a pilot you and I both know he had little control over his altitude unless he did have some thrust. He/she could manage his descent, but little else.
AND he/she did a MARVELOUS job of managing the descent and landing.
I bet Bitchin’ Betty was making herself known. “WHERE’S THAT MUTE BUTTON???!?!?!”
Here’s something even more spectacular. Go here:
http://www4.passur.com/lga.html
Set the time to 15:25 and watch. USA1549 takes off from runway 4 at LGA just before 1526 and makes it to about 3400 feet over the Bronx before starting a descent. The pilot made a sharp 180, lined it up on the river, dodged a general aviation aircraft coming up the river at 1000 feet in the opposite direction, and then apparently ditched it southbound down the river. Phenomenal, and very quick thinking. From takeoff to ditch was maybe four minutes.
}:-)4
“I LOVE NY... “ I do, too ... proud it’s the city of my birth.
I was fortunte to live there for a few years as a young adult, but don’t think I could ever live there again. The energy level is just too high for this seasoned citizen.
But they received logistical and financial support from New Zealand, justifying our coming invasion.
I said Canadian geese... not Candadian “geeks”!
Just read a story recently about dogs being used to chase birds away. What do you think?
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