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Old 19th Feb 2009, 21:18
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Swamp76
 
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At the risk of exposing my identity to plenty of people:

Hit a hawk with a 76 a few days ago, sparrow(?) yesterday. Saw the hawk in time to pull up and was able to alter the impact to the nose, about 6 inches ahead of the windshield. Bird goo from point of impact to the rotor head. Took a long time to wash off. Impact at approx 145 KIAS, 800'. Impact was very loud and broke the left wiper.

The little one was just like a big bug. No time to see it, just a bloody mess in the center of the copilot's windshield. He didn't notice until he looked up.

All others were too long ago to recall the details (longer than this tour :-).
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