Why will it mean you have to rant about another useless point?
Why will it mean you have to rant about another useless point?
Indeed so.
This is just a caption gold mine, nobody died and it looks hilarious.
Chickens are normally the standard weapon for testing jet engines at a set speed and most have no issue with them (although there is a story that the USAF once found that they could destroy any engine with there chickens, which they hadn't thought about thawing first!). A goose is much bigger and ultimately if an aircraft hits a flock of birds it is probably going to get more than one sucked through each engine, a completely different ask altogether and no jet engine will survive a bad bird strike. Normally a bird strike will only mean total engine failure at worst, which is far from ideal but normally can brought down in a controlled ditch only resulting in walking wounded and written off plane, so long as the pilot quickly finds the best direction to try and land in and gains and maintains enough speed, as has been dramatically shown in incidents like this and the BA flight at Heathrow.
There are two reasons why this would be a very bad idea, firstly any kind of mesh in front of an engine is going to go into it when it gets broken off and it will because the forces involved are enormous, a big bird (and a goose is very big) will make a bid for freedom through whatever comes its way a bit of 3mm steel plate with big holes in it unsupported would easily be cracked or worse bent back into the engine. Lots of extra metal flying everywhere isn't advisable and is far more likely to penetrate the cabin or aircraft structure than the remains of a bird.
The second reason is it would be pointless, a bird hitting a solid object at that speed will be ripped into pieces and barely slowed by some mesh.
Plus the aerodynamics and engine efficiency would plummet. Much like the bird after the strike.
Jet engines are the ultimate bird carcass processor. Instant chicken nuggets.
buget? sounds french
"In case of a water landing..."
I never really thought that landing in water would result in anything other than total destruction. Apparently I was wrong, and I now appreciate those crazy floating seats and life-jackets they give to us.
It's French, it means "stupid English person not checking for typo in funny caption before saving and uploading a picture".
No, no, that was "Crashing into the Hudson river"
Thank god everybody knew how to use the belt buckles!
P.S. Budget is written the same in french
Same here. Absolutely amazing to see the plane intact. Wonderful to know nobody was killed.
Georgie must be getting deeper into the bottle, in the good old days the headlines would have screamed....
Al Quida Trained Killer Birds.
Mr Ima Dick from the Department of Homeland Security announced that they had utterly conclusive evidence that Al Quida were training thousands of birds to fly into aircraft jet engines.
" This is just a trial run " he said. " All Americans must come together to fight this evil plot and shoot every bird ( or raghead ) they see. "
" It will be 911 times a thousand " he shouted, " They'll be flocks of Al Quida seagulls attacking airports and we must protect the American people at all cost "
Mr Dick stated that all birds were now placed on the terror list and forbidden to fly.
" Any goddam bird you see flying is clearly a terrorist and must be shot on sight " he screamed.
Barrack Obama said that he had to check with his minders before making a statement but stated that if Israel believed that birds were terrorists then naturally he did too.
In fact, whatever Israel thought about anything was clearly this administrations future US policy.
Al Quida Trained Killer Birds.
Mr Ima Dick from the Department of Homeland Security announced that they had utterly conclusive evidence that Al Quida were training thousands of birds to fly into aircraft jet engines.
" This is just a trial run " he said. " All Americans must come together to fight this evil plot and shoot every bird ( or raghead ) they see. "
" It will be 911 times a thousand " he shouted, " They'll be flocks of Al Quida seagulls attacking airports and we must protect the American people at all cost "
Mr Dick stated that all birds were now placed on the terror list and forbidden to fly.
" Any goddam bird you see flying is clearly a terrorist and must be shot on sight " he screamed.
Barrack Obama said that he had to check with his minders before making a statement but stated that if Israel believed that birds were terrorists then naturally he did too.
In fact, whatever Israel thought about anything was clearly this administrations future US policy.
Yep me neither....I've stopped paying attention at the safety briefing at the start of flights for years...IF I ever manage to survive a plane crash, I'll figure out how to inflate my jacket then!
What's hilarious is that half the people don't even look like wearing the inflatable jacket in the pictures!And I bet everyone came out with their shoes too!
there's very little time to react I guess, they were just taking off from La gaurdia and almost ran into trouble straight away.
This came to mind...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypzdjTlw9bs
(german speaking people will understand)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypzdjTlw9bs
(german speaking people will understand)
Also, on top of the points raised already, the mesh itself would not be the only limit on airflow but it's more likely to entrap debris pressed against it. You'd need to hop out onto the wing after take off and check that the mesh is clear, and at high altititude if it's freezing up you'll have to get a tin of Halfrods de-icer on there, ad that will further increase the blockage area of any mesh. I think, on the scale of design solutions that didnt work, this one is somewhere around the toilet snorkel that lets you breath the air in a toilet U bend in case of fire.
I'd also imagine that mesh stretched over a few feet is likely to bend so much it'd end up scraping the prop itself, no?
And it was a FLOCK of geese. That's a lot of blood and feathers to flood engines. Engines are designed to take one, maybe a couple, but ploughing through a whole crowd of them is sort of unusual
Major congrats to the pilot for managing to land safely on the water without power though. The comments from the people on the ground were quite funny
You just have to hope that some little old man wasn't out in a rowing boat at the time...
And it was a FLOCK of geese. That's a lot of blood and feathers to flood engines. Engines are designed to take one, maybe a couple, but ploughing through a whole crowd of them is sort of unusual
Major congrats to the pilot for managing to land safely on the water without power though. The comments from the people on the ground were quite funny
You just have to hope that some little old man wasn't out in a rowing boat at the time...
^ I`ve got nothing much to say about it, Dajmin summed it up pretty nicely there.
A few bunch of people really know, wait, not KNOW, only imagine, what the pilot was through those moments, few seconds to decide what to do. DECIDE and not panic (with all the bells and whistles ringing..).
He should be awarded with highest medal a pilot can recieve..
It's rather amazing that everyone remained calm enough to exit a sinking plane. Also, I'm a little surprised that PETA hasn't called for the arrest of the pilot. He killed two birds after all...
America + Plane crash = OMG HELP ME I AM DYING
"no you're not, you're in 3ft of water"
"OMG HELP ME I WILL SUE YOU"
It goes on.
"no you're not, you're in 3ft of water"
"OMG HELP ME I WILL SUE YOU"
It goes on.
2, thought it was just Big Bird who did'nt make it to Sesame Street?
Does anyone else think of the Jaws theme when looking at these pictures?
Duh-dum... duh-dum... duh-dum duh-dum duh-dum...
NOM NOM NOM.
Duh-dum... duh-dum... duh-dum duh-dum duh-dum...
NOM NOM NOM.
Plane crash New York/Manhattan
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FGED GREDG RDFGDR GSFDG