stagger,

I hope you filed on him - these little sods deserve to be investigated by UK Airprox Board. Surely a case of "flying close enough to cause concern" by the pigeon?

AA

I once has a duck knock off [as in hit,not knicked] the mirror on my BMW motorcycle once
If bird hits building, 90degree impact. Whereas Astra, depends on shape and clenliness, has a bit, only a bit of aerodynamics going for it. Ergo, pigeon didn't hit the Asrta it hit the airflow. So any bird marks are in, sorry, on the back. I knew you had it bakcwrads

I was following a truck at about 30-40mph when a previously hit (or a well trained stunt) Canadian goose rolled out from under the truck. Took the underbumper air spoiler right off the rental car- big, big, bird!!!

The people at Avis were a little difficult...

RIP Little Sparrow. Pigeons hitting Astras?

Took out a sparrow at 120 in the Porsche at Brands yesterday. Now THAT's what he would have liked......

I was visiting my family in Oz last year and we went to stay with our cousins who own a property not to far from Cloncurry in Northen Queensland. Well anyway on the trip up from Brisbane via Winton & Longreach(worth visting for one of the original Qantas hangers)etc,and just as dusk fell and while traveling at 120kph we hit a whole flock of wait for it....Budgies. Bloody massacre it was,the windscreen was covered in little squish marks all over!! :)

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Stagger, your not Dick Dastardly in disguise are you...... STOP THAT PIGEON NOW!

OzPax1
Is pigeon **** brown ? Or is it White ?
Anyone been in Trafalgar Square recently ?
It probably was brown when it realised it was an Astra.Poor thing.(The Pigeon,that is,not Stagger.)

Remember to Flare - no I'm not Dick but it's funny you should mention him because I asked the Greater Manchester Police to have a look back through the video recordings made by their traffic cameras on the M56 on the day of the incident and they came up with following incriminating still...

http://www.animationusa.com/picts/hbpict/pigeon.gif

WE should move this thread to JetBlast! Posts of this high standard ( :))are wasted here in Aircrew Notices!! :)

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Once hit a pheasant whilst doing a fair clip in an Opel Manta on a back lane in Lincolnshire. Little ba$tard dented the front wing, wrote off the offside wing mirror and snapped the electric aerial. It then bounced over a hedge so I couldn't even take it home and eat it.

So I stopped to check the damage. Which is when the fun started. As I turned the engine off, the broken electric aerial tried to retract as the inner nylon cable was still intact. It flailed around taking bits out of the paintwork so I grabbed it and tried to stop it. Picture the scene - me pulling in one direction, Blaupunkt in the other - and the pheasant probably pi$$ing itself with laughter if it wasn't an ex-pheasant by then! Eventually I made a dive for the door, ducking the furiously lashing aerial, and turned the ignition back on. Then the cable wound out and I managed to cut it; turned the radio off - whereupon the cable raced into its hole with horribly expensive noises coming from within until I could find the appropriate fuse! Damned costly birdstrike - panel bashing, new mirror, new aerial and some respray work.

LOL Stagger!

Stagger, see your pigeon made a full recovery & made it to EGLL on tonights airport on BBC1!!

So the little bugger is on TV now? Just when I thought I’d achieved “closure” he’s back to haunt me!

I’m not sure who I’m more angry with right now – my avian foe or the little scallys who decided to use my car as a climbing frame and have left dents all over the roof. Unfortunately I wasn't doing 70mph when this happened.

I think I’ll try my luck with the train service to the airport this weekend!

Beagle, was the Opel Manta wirth repairing?

Just remembered that in my vicinity there is a colony of feral Guinea Fowl. Unfortunately the male believes that the road is part of his territory and will attack anybody using it - even if they are in a car at the time!

You know, all this avian(?) kamikazi behavior could all be being organised by a bad temperd Duck who is well known to the authorites! Here is his RSPCA mug shot... http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/Gif/WBDaffy2.gif

:)

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