Gnarly Gnu Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere. Good outcome (except for the bird): " [/url]A pilot who was forced to make a dangerous emergency landing after an eagle smashed through the windscreen of his plane said his only concern amidst the chaos was getting his 'canine co-pilot' back to the ground safety. Michael Greenwood was flying a light aircraft out of Mudgee with his ten-year-old dog Billy strapped into the back seat when an eagle shattered his windscreen, leaving him and his cockpit splattered with blood" 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza 38 Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I watched on nine news last night. It was good that they showed this at the end of the news. If they showed it straight after the Tiger Moth crash ( which at the start of the news) aviation would looked even more dangerous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Lucky it wasn't a frozen chicken. Have you seen what they do to a windscreen (MythBusters) OME 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 I expect, rather than expending resources in recording the eagle's 'break and enter with intent of willfull damage' allegation, our Casa friends will spend as much if not more time in establishing whether the collie was a bona-fide & registered air traveller. Given their questionable Jabiru data sourcing, mewonders if the eagle gets entered in their records as an air-to-air fatality statistic? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soleair Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Any word on the eagle? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Any word on the eagle? Sadly it could not be revived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDQDI Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Sadly it could not be revived. I thought it was still clinging to life, last word from casa was that it was illeagle not dead eagle. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 at least it went out with a bang camicarzie style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spooks Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Any word on the eagle? I'll be disappointed if it didn't end up on a barbecue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downunder Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Stuffed, mounted and hanging in the hangar would be better...........keeping the other birds from pooping on the planes and an awesome story to tell visitors. Then again, maybe it was too stuffed to be stuffed, if you know what I mean........ 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotorwork Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Any word on the eagle? The Eagle has landed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabiru7252 Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 I'm surprised the propeller didn't fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueadventures Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere. Good outcome (except for the bird): " [/url]A pilot who was forced to make a dangerous emergency landing after an eagle smashed through the windscreen of his plane said his only concern amidst the chaos was getting his 'canine co-pilot' back to the ground safety. Michael Greenwood was flying a light aircraft out of Mudgee with his ten-year-old dog Billy strapped into the back seat when an eagle shattered his windscreen, leaving him and his cockpit splattered with blood" The eagle had its crosshairs and eyeball on the left seat occupant? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ct-8003-ms Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 I had a close encounter with a wedgie at 4500 over the midwest of WA. It was a pleasant, cruisie sort of day when I noticed an annoying spot on my clean windscreen. Suddenly it became very large. It realised what I was about the same time I recognised what he/she was. We both screamed. Wings and feathers went everywhere. We missed. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litespeed Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 It may not happen often- but is a damned good advert for using lexan as a screen. I know they cost more, scratch easily etc But as a bike rider- I would never accept a perspex visor. I have hit a Gallah at high speed and it was not funny at all, a potential killer for sure. Interesting side note: when impacted the gallah feathers splatter pink and grey all over the visor. Felt like a sledgehammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ct-8003-ms Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 I agree completely. I've always used Lexan visors. Apart from the strength and resilience of the material, it's also a lot more scratch resistant. It's a great polycarbonate material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilotdave69 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 A laugh at some of the comments here.. - i interviewed Mike and filmed for prime news (and some vision from nine was mine ) when he was out of hospital . He was a character i will say and a nice guy , so lucky to survive. I put Mike up in my house for a few days with his dog - he spent a few days cleaning his plane from the crap which was inside. Let me say , it stank too. Glad to see he survived. on another note, i actually talked to Mike In mudgee on xmas day as he was refuelling his plane, i had flown over myself for lunch with friend . Approx 115pm i get phone calls asking if i was ok - people had known i was in mudgee wondered if it was me and was i safe back in Bx . ! Shocked to hear this had happened and when i arrived back in bhs - to see photos of said plane and i had talked to mike . I had seen another eagle approx 15 miles south of Mudgee on way back . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY1wdD49Bl8 - Prime news footage - all my vision from the Sunday after he was released from Hospital . well done Mike for keeping it calm and living through ordeal . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilotdave69 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Dogs name was Bobby - good on you NINE NEWS.. nothing like listening to the guy and not interupting him .. haha Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere. Good outcome (except for the bird): " [/url]A pilot who was forced to make a dangerous emergency landing after an eagle smashed through the windscreen of his plane said his only concern amidst the chaos was getting his 'canine co-pilot' back to the ground safety. Michael Greenwood was flying a light aircraft out of Mudgee with his ten-year-old dog Billy strapped into the back seat when an eagle shattered his windscreen, leaving him and his cockpit splattered with blood" Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere. Good outcome (except for the bird): " A pilot who was forced to make a dangerous emergency landing after an eagle smashed through the windscreen of his plane said his only concern amidst the chaos was getting his 'canine co-pilot' back to the ground safety. Michael Greenwood was flying a light aircraft out of Mudgee with his ten-year-old dog Billy strapped into the back seat when an eagle shattered his windscreen, leaving him and his cockpit splattered with blood" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 I agree completely. I've always used Lexan visors. Apart from the strength and resilience of the material, it's also a lot more scratch resistant. It's a great polycarbonate material. Sure is, I used to race speedway in an open face helmet with plastic dirt bike mask. A rock came up one night and broke my nose. The mask was undamaged but just became a passenger on the big rock trying to crush my face. Wore a full face with lexan after that painfull little incident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Perry Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 I had a close encounter with a wedgie at 4500 over the midwest of WA. It was a pleasant, cruisie sort of day when I noticed an annoying spot on my clean windscreen. Suddenly it became very large. It realised what I was about the same time I recognised what he/she was. We both screamed. Wings and feathers went everywhere. We missed. Jeeze,. . .I hope the darn thing adopted standard head - on collision avoidance procedures mate . . . ? Mind you . . .some of these birds can be a bit Gull ible. . . ( I'll get me coat again ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Perry Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 It may not happen often- but is a damned good advert for using lexan as a screen.I know they cost more, scratch easily etc But as a bike rider- I would never accept a perspex visor. I have hit a Gallah at high speed and it was not funny at all, a potential killer for sure. Interesting side note: when impacted the gallah feathers splatter pink and grey all over the visor. Felt like a sledgehammer Tthe Lexan thing was a bit of an issue with aircraft parked out in the open at our site a few years back, some pilots had used screen covers made from all sorts of different materials ( just get out of paying for proper ones I guess ! ) one bloke had a Rans S6 and had used a cover made from some sort of heavy vinyl, and found that it scratched the screen quite badly all over. There were some commercially available cleaning fluids which could remove SOME of the scratcing but this stuff was really bad, and entailed replacing the screen with a new one. Only thing to remember when using Polycarbonates, ( Lexan - Makrolon, etc )is NOT to use any cleaner fluid which contains an active solvent. This rules out any kind of paint thinners, whether synthetic or especially standard, which contains acetone, , and literally melts the Polycarb on contact. Some degreaser fluids like bodyshop Panelwipe also contain solvents. We tried some Methylated spirit on the aforementioned Rans screen, and this did actually work, and it doesn't react with the plastic. . .but it would craze in the sunlight when flying up sun due to the very fine scratches . . .so this was no good either. Most covers for this stuff are made with a very soft lint cloth lining, and if tied down outside, making sure there's no grit or crap between it and the poly when the cover goes on, so that htis does not auto- sandpaper the screen if the aircraft rocks around a bit whilst tied down !. I used to use a lot of Lexan for the manufacture of larrikin resistant illuminated sign box faces, and it really is darned good and withstands impacts. . . I also never ride my VFR750 without a proper lexan visor either ! At the speeds I RIDE AT,. . .( 55 - 65 Mph. . .) I really need that level of protection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 US Registered? http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2016/aair/ao-2016-001.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Phil - you ride a Viffer? Mine is an '86, the Rocket Ron Haslam blue one... love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Perry Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Phil - you ride a Viffer? Mine is an '86, the Rocket Ron Haslam blue one... love it. I can't "Ride" it at the moment, as it's on the Costa Del Sol in Southern Spain near to Benidorm, were my good friend Mark is doing some restoration work on it, in return for me restoring his Dad's X'Air. . . It's an '89, white with a bit of red trim. He's already located a pair of lower front fairing quarter panels, which were missing when I bought it. Some time in the next year or so,. . .I'll be going down there to ride it back. ( Got to find some better leathers though,. . .mine seem to have shrunk around the belly area. . . over the last 3 years since partial retirement of the wearer, . . . ! ) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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