Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

@efb haven't you personally fired geese/turkeys/chickens at things?

in the USAF and served weapons/tac (think Goose from Top Gun) in Phantom F4s BITD. He did two full combat tours and birdstrike was one of the things that always terrified the flight crews. Canopy strike in particular as if it took out the pilot in front, he might or might not survive an ejection.

I am sure you have this wrong, it was an F-14, and Goose struck the canopy, Maverick was fine.

An old colleague of mine used to tell a story about being on a plane that hit a goose at cruising altitude and depressurised.

What was the goose doing flying around at cruising altitude?!

Frontal pigeon strike in a car doing 60 had the bird go through the radiator grill and smash seven shades of shit out of the radiator. Expensive day out.

What was the goose doing flying around at cruising altitude?!

This allegedly happened in the 70s on a flight from Tenerife so I don't know what sort of plane he was on and what altitude it was flying at but apparently geese have been spotted by pilots all the way up to 25k+ feet.

This is actually somewhat mind blowing; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_by_flight_heights

Whooper swan Cygnus cygnus Anatidae 8,200 metres (27,000 feet) This height was attained by a flock of whooper swans flying over Northern Ireland, and recorded by radar.

That's rad. I spotted a bearded vulture a few weeks ago in Switzerland. We were at 3000m, didn't realise they can go up to 7300m!

One of these.

His exact plane was used as box cover by Revell. The model even had his name and callsign in the decals. /csb

https://youtu.be/BnnxqQj_dDs

The first comment says it isn't a bird strike test. Now I don't know what to believe.

If it was a single bird strike test, or even a flock, the engine wouldn't have eaten itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP0g3g9TkSE

This is so much better than the Grange Hill group reminiscing session.

Still not memes though

What was the goose doing flying around at cruising altitude?!
looking for hot chicks.

I guess the slow mo replay sort of cracked me up

https://youtu.be/Oq0gZiJxP5Q

I was not directly involved, but pre-production testing of engines did involve firing various sized frozen birds into a running engine suspended within a test bed. I have seen examples of uncontained [fan blade penetrating engine casing] failures as a result of these tests.

That's an explosive fan blade removal test, you can tell because they one that's being removed by explosives is painted orange so they can track it.

Sure, smaller and non commercial use jets are probably less interested in bird strike survivability. Trent 900, not so much.

I remember watching a youtube video of some rich guy showing off his private jet and he was complaining about how he couldn't put anything custom inside it because if you want a solid gold and velour arm chair you have to build 2 identical ones and burn the first to the ground to see how long it survives so it's just too expensive.

Goosechat is great. I'm learning a lot. Schoolchat is just people yakking on about a thing they experienced historically, and it's all one-up'ing the last person.

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Sounds like a fucking peasant to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwOi7HpHtQ