Um, Excuse Me, Flight Attendant?

[racer2c]

Link (http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=620854)

(the pic showed up in my preview, humph)

[B3RACER1a]

[Sean O'Gorman]

http://www.infopackets.com/graphics/outlook+express+6+red+x.gif

[Cam]

Link (http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=620854)

(the pic showed up in my preview, humph)

Obviously no anonymous pic serving..... That said.... WOW!!! :eek:

[lone_groover]

Hey, if that were HOOTERS Air, they'd be seagulls......

:saywhat:

[peelo]

Unable to afford the expense of an F-16 escort for flights reporting suspicious activity onboard, the Hungarian government instead turns to a force that is not only just as menacing but also is willing and able to wreak havoc on the plane, even to the point of sacrificing their own lives: kamikaze birds.

Stay away from the engines, birdies! Stay away!

[oddlycalm]

It appears the birds are actually in the foreground no where near the plane, but birds and turbine engines are a bad mix, particularly during critical manuevers during takeoff and landing.

I was on an American Airlines flight out of Phoenix that sucked an cactus owl into the #3 engine which made a sound like an explosion just after lift off. The pilot slammed the plane down on the deck and stood on the brakes. We skidded off the end of the runway into the gravel and stopped no more than 20ft. from the embankment down to 24th Street. I heard later that the engine was fine, but had flamed out. After a change of planes (and a change of shorts for a few I expect) we were on our way to Chicago only a few hours late.

oc

[mapguy]

Hey, if that were HOOTERS Air, they'd be seagulls......

:saywhat:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/mapguy/688389.jpg

[Sean O'Gorman]

http://photos.airliners.net/56bab5aa092f52c3d7df7dce0992c6af/41c33a04/middle/4/7/2/221274.jpg

Who knew that there was actually a Thrifty vehicle that I didn't wreck? :D

[dando]

It appears the birds are actually in the foreground no where near the plane, but birds and turbine engines are a bad mix, particularly during critical manuevers during takeoff and landing.

I was on an American Airlines flight out of Phoenix that sucked an cactus owl into the #3 engine which made a sound like an explosion just after lift off. The pilot slammed the plane down on the deck and stood on the brakes. We skidded off the end of the runway into the gravel and stopped no more than 20ft. from the embankment down to 24th Street. I heard later that the engine was fine, but had flamed out. After a change of planes (and a change of shorts for a few I expect) we were on our way to Chicago only a few hours late.

oc

:eek:
That would have required a trip to the bar for me.

-Kevin

[pineapple]

^ And after that trip to the bar, a cab ride to the train station.

[Methanolandbrats]

Rental car

[JohnHKart]

I just watched a Modern Marvels that dealt with runways...It actually was an interesting show after I intially thought the subject would be a bore, and I'm a life time aviation enthusiast. Among the techniques to get rid of birds are having trained falcons on the grounds, I think JFK has 20 of them. There are also robot falcons that are being tested, which seemed to work pretty convincingly on the show. Another new technique that is being considered is to put brighter lights on the wingtips to scare off the birds. The show also showed dead birds being hurled into engines during tests. Pretty interesting stuff.

John

[Ankf00]

when they were testing the kevlar housing on the 777's turbines, they were throwing dead ducks by the boatload towards the intake, weird stuff