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Must watch video - eagle collides with paraglider - Russian pilot swears a lot.

W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
edited 2014-04-09 11:48 in General Discussion
This is really worth watching. Lots of swearing, in Russian but captioned in English, understandable considering the situation, quite an amazing video.

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  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2014-04-09 09:08
    OMG, that's amazing and scary...

    I've had a birdstrike on my Cessna windshield. Still scary.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-04-09 09:47
    erco wrote: »
    OMG, that's amazing and scary...

    I've had a birdstrike on my Cessna windshield. Still scary.

    I got a Yellow Jacket stuck in my shirt while hang gliding at 30' in my Zephyr . He wasn't happy and let me know it.

    But...the pucker factor was probably A LOT different than our Russian pilot. :)
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2014-04-09 10:03
    Does getting hit on the nose by a dragon fly at 65 mph on a motorcycle count? Everything goes into slow motion as you see it coming toward you and are helpless to avoid it. Actually rather painless, but quite a scare.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-04-09 10:18
    Or a Love Bug in Florida at even 45 MPH.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2014-04-09 10:28
    The eagle seemed no worse for wear. Russians just need ample vodka to heal.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2014-04-09 10:43
    A side note on bird strikes. My first job was at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Engines in the swamps near West Palm Beach. I worked R&M on the F-100 jet engine in the F-15 & F-16 fighters. Bird strike/injestion tests were required on engines running in the test stands. Before my time, they would toss live chickens into a running engine to evaluate FOD (foreign object damage). Certainly a quick & painless death for the chickens, nonetheless animal activists complained and at some point P&W was forced to switch to frozen chickens from the supermarket (thawed, naturally). There was a specially-designed compressed air chicken cannon to fire the carcass in at various velocities & angles (your tax dollars in action, this was all government subsidized). On evaluation day at the test stands, there was an amusing array of high tech tools & parts and a bunch of raw defrosting chickens laying about. Good times.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-04-09 11:48
    I guess that's about as close to auto rotation with a Para Glider. That guy was lucky. ?
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