Story of the day...........
SNOWBIRD #8 NEEDS TO RETIRE ITS NUMBER!!!!!
I can't take the stress that this one little jet causes anymore!
This is the jet that crashed claiming the life of a friend of mine in Dec of 2004. It is also the jet that crashed in July causing the pilot (the same one who is currently flying it), to have to punch out during an airshow warm up.
Now I understand that it is bird migration season......that is life, but at 10am the bells went off. SHIT! I hate air born emergencies because you never know how they are going to end up. Well - he landed with no problems and the team went back to the hanger to regroup. The pilot left his #8 jet with the Avian Technicians and grabbed one of the spare jets so that the team could continue practising their new show. I kid you not....not even 45 minutes later.....BEEP - BEEP. You have to understand that because this is one of the key points of the season for bird strikes to occur, all I could think about was
"God - I hope that it isn't #8 again!"
We have about 20-30 pilots fly here each and every day so it COULDN'T be him again.....WRONG!!. We reach the crash position point just in time to see the pilot sink in his seat as he taxies by us and I sit there in shock. WHY HIM? In the end.......we lost the lives of 2 birds May they fly the free skies of birdy heaven
This may come as an amusement to all of you but I have seen some nasty stuff relating to bird strikes.....even to the point of a bird going through the nose of a jet and the beak embedding into the pilots knee cap
Here are a few pictures of what one little bird can to to an aircraft!
This would be the reason why we have "Bird Man" on our base whos job is to shoot "at" the birds. This is also why our base sounds like a really bad atari game in the summer (bird alarms)
Hope you all had a great weekend
Kisses
SNOWBIRD #8 NEEDS TO RETIRE ITS NUMBER!!!!!
I can't take the stress that this one little jet causes anymore!
This is the jet that crashed claiming the life of a friend of mine in Dec of 2004. It is also the jet that crashed in July causing the pilot (the same one who is currently flying it), to have to punch out during an airshow warm up.
Now I understand that it is bird migration season......that is life, but at 10am the bells went off. SHIT! I hate air born emergencies because you never know how they are going to end up. Well - he landed with no problems and the team went back to the hanger to regroup. The pilot left his #8 jet with the Avian Technicians and grabbed one of the spare jets so that the team could continue practising their new show. I kid you not....not even 45 minutes later.....BEEP - BEEP. You have to understand that because this is one of the key points of the season for bird strikes to occur, all I could think about was
"God - I hope that it isn't #8 again!"
We have about 20-30 pilots fly here each and every day so it COULDN'T be him again.....WRONG!!. We reach the crash position point just in time to see the pilot sink in his seat as he taxies by us and I sit there in shock. WHY HIM? In the end.......we lost the lives of 2 birds
May they fly the free skies of birdy heaven
This may come as an amusement to all of you but I have seen some nasty stuff relating to bird strikes.....even to the point of a bird going through the nose of a jet and the beak embedding into the pilots knee cap
Here are a few pictures of what one little bird can to to an aircraft!
This would be the reason why we have "Bird Man" on our base whos job is to shoot "at" the birds. This is also why our base sounds like a really bad atari game in the summer (bird alarms)
Hope you all had a great weekend
Kisses
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Poor planes...
A friend of mine is an air traffic controller here in Regina. He always bugs me that he's going to get rid of the birds I study by turning them into bird strikes. He gets this funny look on his face and goes 'bird strike!' while pretending to throw birds through the engines.
*sigh*