I heard something about this on the weekend but didn't pay much attention to it, here's pics

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5339/pelicanfu3.jpg


http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7716/pelican2vj2.jpg


http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8127/pelican3jw7.jpg


looks like the F1-11 barely won that

Yeah it was on the news a few days ago.

Bloody crazy that a bird could do that kind of damage... massive props to the pilot that managed to fly it back in that state.

Vote #1 to a military pelican breeding programme to keep our skies safe from invading terrorist aircraft

The pilots have mad skillz to land that plane after that kind of damage.

Not to mention the engys who designed an aircraft that could perform like an F1-11 and not fall out of the air after a bird strike.

look at that bloated hunk of junk, what was it doing in the air anyway

Keeping our skies safe, casa... or perhaps you WANT the terrorists to win?"

we use F1-11's as strike aircraft trog, just fyi

So our planes are made out of STRAW?!?!

I think it was a joke paveway you moron

i thought it was fibreglass not straw

no no.. definatley straw. lol

keeping our skies safe with enviromentally safe straw hats

You think this s*** is scary... Space shuttles are paper thin aluminum in some spots, and do you know what is in space? f***ing tiny meteorites traveling at blazing fast speeds all over the f***... they chip the s*** out of the windshield - I have no idea how the foil survives, but still... f***ing scary s***...

straw is an excellent material for carrying radiated weapons.

f*** man how fast was that pelican flying to do that kind of damage to a stationary plane?

but the big question is

was the plane using a treadmill

I was trying to be cool and find the youtube of Sean Connery taking down that plane with a flock of birds in the Last Crusade but couldn't find it:(

I was trying to be cool and find the youtube of Sean Connery taking down that plane with a flock of birds in the Last Crusade but couldn't find it:(

I think I have that movie on dvd, wanna "borrow" it? :p

look at that bloated hunk of junk, what was it doing in the air anyway

same thing r33's do except it does it in the air. Sail on air-barge, sail on.

:*(

looks like the F1-11 barely won that

yeah narrow victory, the f111 gets a broken nose, and the pelican is spread all over queensland.

the real wtf here is, What the hell was a pelican doing at 900m? Enjoying the view? http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23563691-2,00.html

edit.. stupid news.com.au links, how does one fix them up?

last edited by Merky007 at 18:48:24 21/Apr/08

Here's a funny news.com article

“I think the bird strike story is baloney,” Sean wrote from the Gold Coast.

“More like a cover up to admit the 34-year-old air force planes are well past their use-by dates. This looks a lot more like a structural failure in the fibreglass.”

lol almost posted at the same time, but I had the working link haha

last edited by Lynx at 19:10:55 21/Apr/08

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm190/pointyfork/jonesbirds.gif


last edited by whoop at 19:36:50 21/Apr/08

better yet, how high must that pelican have been flying?
I want what he was smokin'

news.com.au links are fail