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> Thunderbird Suffers Bird Strike, lands safely, thank god
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post Apr 23 2007, 08:04 PM
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post Apr 23 2007, 08:10 PM
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Glad he was able to land safley. Many of us saw it, watching the live feed.

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post Apr 23 2007, 09:46 PM
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Man it was odd week. VT, Blue Angel goes down and then this. Hopefully we will be a bit more lucky the next few weeks.


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post Apr 24 2007, 11:28 AM
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Which plane was it, do we know?
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post Apr 24 2007, 11:42 AM
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I believe it was the #2 jet, but am not 100% sure on that.


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post Apr 24 2007, 02:43 PM
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QUOTE(Steven Holzinger @ Apr 24 2007, 12:42 PM) [snapback]6790[/snapback]
I believe it was the #2 jet, but am not 100% sure on that.


I've heard the same from a few places.


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post Apr 24 2007, 04:11 PM
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Good to hear the pilot recovered safely.

Anyone know the extent of the damage to the jet?


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post Apr 24 2007, 05:00 PM
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It was the 2 jet, I was watching when it happened. Jim Deveney


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post Apr 24 2007, 07:33 PM
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Yup, No. 2 hit a bird coming out of the Delta Roll. No. 1 flew chase during the recovery and the show was continued without No. 2. The Stinger Loop was flown (No. 5 on the left wing) and then the High-BB only had three jets on the break. Overall a smooth recovery and continuation of the show...


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post Jul 1 2007, 03:43 PM
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No.2 is so unlucky jet..... It suffered from a bird strike today at Graf Ignatievo AFB, Bulgaria..... again as it looks like.

7 min after the take off, No.2 hit a bird with the canopy and landed right after that. The remaining 5 thunderbirds remain in the vicinity waiting the pilot to take the spare single seat jet lined up with the runway. It cost them 15 min to take off and I think they cutted the show a bit. It is curious that No.4 was actually No.7 because No.1 had a failure on arrival. So somebody decided not to fly with two F-16Ds.

Nobody has taken the bird strike on photo, but I have some pictures when the jet was towed back.


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post Jul 1 2007, 11:34 PM
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All of these, like the two that they had in Sacramento...

Been a hard year for birds when the TBirds have been in town!! rolleyes.gif


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