Hole-y Crap! Okay, so, I understand that it hit right at the seam. I also understand that the plane was probably flying at high speeds (at what speed was it actually going when the bird hit?). But holy crap, dude. It punched right through it!
As a side issue, do they know what kind of bird it was (may it rest in peace)?
I have no idea how fast they were going because they don't know when they hit it. I am guessing climbing out of SLC so it would have been somewhere between 140 to 180 knots. As for the bird not really sure. One guy said the feather looked like it might have come from a hawk.
I was thinking that the two feathers I see there came from an immature Red Tailed Hawk. The one up top looks like one of the train feathers and the one on the side looks like a wing covert. Poor hawk. Poor plane. Poor you, for being grounded through no fault of your own!
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Hole-y Crap! Okay, so, I understand that it hit right at the seam. I also understand that the plane was probably flying at high speeds (at what speed was it actually going when the bird hit?). But holy crap, dude. It punched right through it!
As a side issue, do they know what kind of bird it was (may it rest in peace)?
I have no idea how fast they were going because they don't know when they hit it. I am guessing climbing out of SLC so it would have been somewhere between 140 to 180 knots. As for the bird not really sure. One guy said the feather looked like it might have come from a hawk.
I was thinking that the two feathers I see there came from an immature Red Tailed Hawk. The one up top looks like one of the train feathers and the one on the side looks like a wing covert. Poor hawk. Poor plane. Poor you, for being grounded through no fault of your own!
It is times like these when you really apreciate closed cockpits....
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