500 feet and 500 knots, I dodged a number of buzzards, looked at my flight lead, and then...*#@$ there was one that I hadn’t seen. Blew a hole 3 feet wide in my F-4 canopy. The F-4 glass is about 1/2 inch thick. Needless to say it got my attention. Fortunately, both my back seater and I were just fine. But there was one chunk of canopy shaped like a sharp knife, poking me in my left arm. But no cuts, no abrasions, just a lot of noise. We were blessed!!
Ouch!
Man, you were blessed!
....aren’t we all....