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on Wednesday November 22 2017, @10:03PM
from the good-thing-they-didn't-hit-a-flying-pig dept.
from the good-thing-they-didn't-hit-a-flying-pig dept.
The intact carcass of a bird dangles from a plane after colliding with the aircraft approaching Miami International Airport.
This would seem to defy the laws of physics, or that just the bird's neck is Kryptonian. It's name is being witheld until the next of kin is notified....
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Bird Carcass Strangely Intact After Impact With Landing Plane
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Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and
the instruction afterward.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @01:35AM (6 children)
Looks like a 737. If it was landing fairly light, the landing airspeed could be 130-140 mph (~120 knots). If the bird was flying the same direction as the plane, its velocity would subtract from the impact speed. If the bird got scared moments before collision, it could have dived for more airspeed, so might have been going 60 mph(??) Then, since the dent is right at the nose, the fore wake of the plane would have sped the bird up a little. Impact speed could be as slow as 60-70 mph (all using very speculative numbers). The dent means that the crash didn't happen all at once, it took some (small) time to change from bird_speed up to plane_speed.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday November 23 2017, @02:09AM (3 children)
So, more a smoosh than a splat.
My god, man, a 60mph bird!
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:03AM (2 children)
https://www.thetravelalmanac.com/lists/birds-speed.htm [thetravelalmanac.com]
> ...the Peregrine Falcon is not only the fastest moving bird, it is the fastest animal on the planet. It first soars to a great height, then dives steeply at speeds of over 200 mph. However, it does not make the top ten list below which is based on speeds when travelling in level flight.
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> Fastest Level Flying
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> The following list of birds is based on the travelling speed when measured in level flying. The info is from several sources and you may find other contradicting lists elsewhere. The top of this list, the Spine-tailed swift, obviously gets its name 'swift' for being so fast.
Table lists 10 bird species, all clocked at faster than 60mph (100kph).
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:36AM
Wow. I've had cars that couldn't go that fast.
Wonder if poor squashed birdy sped up when he saw the plane follwing him...
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @08:58AM
The Peregrine Falcon is not the fastest animal on the planet. That title goes to a certain mammal, especially around certain areas like Florida, New Guinea and Baikonur.
(Score: 2) by gottabeme on Thursday November 23 2017, @10:23AM
That's an Airbus.
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:41PM
The nose of a jet liner is a radome and is not made out of metal. I don't know what exactly it is made out of it but it needs to let the radar signals through because the nose is really just a shell protecting the radar antennas. Something like this [businessinsider.com].
The bird broke some plastic instead of dented some metal. The very tip of the nose has a hole and there is the quite obvious hole the bird is sitting in.