F-16 vs bird
 

F 16 vs Bird (bird cooked -- aircraft destroyed)

READ FIRST, THEN VIEW ATTACHMENT SECOND....

http://blazingbucks.com/gfy/F_16_vs_bird.wmv

Amazing 45 second sequence. You may have to re-play to see the bird that entered the engine. Go to large screen if you can.

This is footage from the cockpit of an F-16. Cool reaction and professionalism of the two pilots, including cockpit transmission with video.

F-16 engine ingests bird after takeoff @ Tyndall AFB. Think you might find it interesting to see a crash from the cockpit of an airplane.

It is an instructor pilot in the rear and a student in the front seat of an F-16.
A "Bird Strike," as seen through the Heads Up Display (HUD). You can see the bird flash by just prior to impacting the engine. You can hear the aircraft voice warning system telling them they have a problem and referring to the "D-6 NL" which means there is no engine RPM.

They made 2 attempts to relight the jet engine, but evidently there was too much damage from the bird strike and they had to eject.

These guys were very cool; note the heavy breathing... They certainly flew longer than one would expect before ejecting. Airspeed can be observed on the HUD's upper left corner. It goes down to the low 120's as they struggle to get the engine going again, but as the plane noses over and dives to earth it increases to at least 175 just before impact.

It just goes to show how quickly your day can go to pieces - 45 seconds from strike to ejection. All and all, not bad. They ran the Emergency Checklist, made two relight attempts, and picked out a plowed field for impact before ejecting..

You can follow the audio attached to it and hear the conversation between the pilot and instructor pilot and then the tower. Including the pilot saying they were punching out. The tower didn't seem to completely understand it all, and missed the significance of the last transmission. The towers last radio call, he's talking to an empty aircraft.

The video continues until impact, even after they both eject. A classic "buying the farm" as you can see the plow rows get bigger.

A real nice job from the aircrew by keeping their cool and turning the aircraft away from populated areas. No one hurt and no one killed but the dirty bird did cost the Taxpayers a "few" million dollars!

Wow that would SUCK lol. They were very professional though.

want to attack the usa - disable their air force with pigons!!!!!!

That's crazy that a bird could do that.. don't they throw dead birds through commercial airliner engines to certify them, and they go through without a hiccup?

Now that was interesting

They didn't freak for one moment... woah

That might not be that far from the truth.

Chinese scientists command pigeons via remote control

that was amazing. you could definitely hear the change in voice when it was time to "shit and get" :thumbsup

Yes, because if you have a potential weapon so tiny and so benign you'd be sure to tell of every practical use imaginable. :thumbsup

"Bird and other wildlife strikes to aircraft annually cause over $600 million in damage to U.S. civil and military aviation"

beware flying cows:Oh crap

It's incredible how robust these planes can be in almost every regard, but if they lose an an engine, they are generally fucked. As long as they still have enough thrust, they can do just about anything. Have a look at this F-15 video.

F-15 lands with only one wing.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=e1aKxAN7bAs

i guess but it's far harder to disable the US air force then the Canadian one which have 3 jets or so in the fleet.
I guess disabling the Canadian jets would be harder then disabling the old old very old Canadian Sea King Helicopters which break down if you sneeze on them.
All this and the Canadian government can't or choose not to buy new equipment even though they have a surplus every year from the huge taxes they push on to their citizens.
As far as the US Air Force, they'll kick Canadian ass before you can even say PORN or SleazyDream.

Holy shit!

what the fuck was that?!

lol thats fucked up. there goes $45 million dollars down the drain because of a god damned pigeon.

You would be surprised what those things can take, and may of them have faught combat missions on one engine.

That was a Canadian plane & Canadian pilot.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...rd-strike.html

That wasn't an f-16...

Man! and he hits the after burner to straighten the plane out. thats balls..

Duke

Woah..that sucks!

scary shit right there

I worked on F-15's for 4 years and got to put a few back together after some mid-air collisions. Pretty amazing how much damage they can fly with. With the F-16 though, it only has one engine and if you lose that you are toast. The F-15 people loved to make jokes about F-16's. We called them "Lawn Darts" because of the long spike on their nose and their high accident rate. We used to have a large picture in our break room of a field with a bunch of F-16's stuck nose first in the ground.

Incredible video, amazing story - but they raised the perfect point - with enough speed, you can keep anything in the air.

What are the glide rates of jets like? Can they even glide much w/o power?

fuckin biiiiiirds. flip em

Amazing Videos!

Damn thats some crazy shit!!!:thumbsup

Most fighter jets have terrible glide ratios, or lift to drag ratios. When they come in to land, they're generally running a little above idle so the pilot can use the throttle to adjust his sink rate. Without power, they pretty much just fall out of the sky.