Fareastdriver,
Good thing your feathered projectile didn't go through the front screen and jam
you instead of just your radar ! (and I use the word 'jam' advisedly)
Some time ago I told the tale of getting off my strip just before it turned to mud. On my way to firmer, paved ground, I was somewhere in the clag over the Western Ghats when this black turkey-sized thing flashed just over the cockpit canopy.
I don't know which of us got the greater shock, but if we
had connected, the inch or so armoured glass in my front panel should have protected me.
And once, way past v1, I took a s**tehawk in between the cylinders, but that was fatal only to the bird.
D.