Bird strike

This Is What Happens When a Bird Strikes Your Plane

After researchers studied bird flight in unprecedented detail, they found birds tilt and angle their wings to accelerate using drag and slow down using lift.

The glass window, not the brick wall, brought about this bird's demise.

Well, Now You Know Where Your Next Vacation Is Going To Be. We once heard of a place where you can climb upon peaks in a rural area deep in Wales. Once you reach them, you can look down and see dozens, NO hundreds of wild jets roam the country side. We thought it was a myth passed down from generat

American airlines flight 1855 suffers birdstrike 7.5 miles away from runway at KCL

Jet fighter

Hudson river emergency landing

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Transavia B738 at Girona on Jul 11th 2014, bird strike. Aircraft flew into a flock of seagulls suffering damage to its wing, engine, nosecone & fuselage. It took 10 days to repair the aircraft.

The photographs have been released by a West Midlands-based specialist photography service and image library Airteam Images to celebrate its 10th birthday.

A new documentary from the Smithsonian Channel will show how wildlife biologists pieced together the events leading up to the “Miracle on the Hudson,” and work to prevent such a disaster from happening again.

Qiu, John - Peregrine Falcon Attacking Model Airplane- South Bay, LA, CAL

Reflections

A passenger jet has been forced to make an emergency landing, after an unidentified “foreign object” smashed into its nose cone at 26,000 feet.

F-15E night refuel

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