Originally Posted by
armchairpilot94116
Jet engines cant digest birds well , would propeller aircraft generally fare better or would damage to the blades render them even worse in bird strikes?
Props may or may not hit a bird.
One figure I recall was that a bird would have to be 8 foot long to be certain of being hit by the propellor in a Tucano flying possibly at 250kts. (The 8 feet is certainly the figure I recall).
The issue here is that the bird would probably hit the cockpit without being chopped up by the propellor.
To pre-empt the next 'bright' idea - you would probably need multi-bladed, contra rotating propellors to chop up the birds before they entered the turbo-fan arc. Of course we woulc always by the Turnmanski turpoprops.