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Old 7th Jun 2001, 19:41
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I've hit two birds, both in the Jetstream 31 when I was an FO on it. The first hit the Captain's windshield just before V1. I was looking at the airspeed indicator about to call V1 when he said **** and ducked almost below the glareshield. I saw a black bird hit the windshield square, leave NO mark, and bounce off left. He called the abort at V1 and we got it stopped, he was worried the bird had gone into #1. Inspection revealed a couple of feathers but not a dent or a bird setting a nest in the turbine. :-)

The second time another bird hit the Captain's window at 100 AGL on landing leaving a bloody hell of a mess. He passed the controls to me and we landed out of it. Again no apparent damage to anything.

The summary of my stories? Airline windshields do a very good job at stopping smaller birds and I attract windshield bird strikes (better than losing an engine to one though I suppose.)