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Old 20th June 2023 | 13:45
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If you have a helmet that allows for two visors....make the primary the clear one and wear it down all the time.

I was fortunate enough to have exactly one experience with a bird strike that shattered a chin bubble on a Chinook while flying very low level in the day time.

It was a very large white bird that was no very happy with its involuntary change in duty status to passenger....and having found itself beneath my seat expressed its great dissatisfaction at being kidnapped.

Plastic shards from the chin bubble went everywhere...with some winding up in my legs and arms.

For a movement we thought we had taken a significant hit from some un-friendly forces.

The Chinook had glass windscreens which would mitigate such an impact but a plastic screen is going to be less resistant.



An example of the possible results of replacing glass wind screens with acrylic or plastic versions.


https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=56849
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