Re: Conehead Hears A Noise (LONG)

"Gordon Beaman" <gord@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:31:33 -0000, Jim Campbell
<Jim.H.Campbell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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gord wrote:

We had that happen with a couple of friggin seagulls at a Toronto
airport back in the mid fifties...they came through the left
windscreen of a C-119 shortly after rotate...the whole plate of the
captains w/s shattered and came out and tangled itself up with his
control column. I, sitting between them got the full blessing of one
gull right in the chest...blood guts and gore everywhere...and the
frigging feathers!...it was W0X0F inside there for awhile...

He couldn't see a thing because of the wind-blast (those were the
pre-helmet days), he and I managed to get the wrecked w/s out of the
controls while the co-jo flew us around an abbreviated circuit. Nobody
could hear the tower because of the thunderous noise so he just
fumbled it onto the same runway that we had taken off of.

That bloody a/c was almost inhabitable all that long hot summer..
there's absolutely nothing that stinks like ripe seagull.

Gord,
As an Air Cadet I spent a couple of summers circa 1974-77 at CFB
Greenwood and CFB Summerside and of course saw many Argus approach/
takeoffs. One story I remember was that an Argus had hit a seagull and
the impact had been on the plexiglass nose resulting in blood and
feathers from one end of the a/c interior to the other. Any basis to
this story? I did my flying scholarship training at Summerside--I do
remember a lot of seagulls hanging about. Miss hearing those 4 Wrights
howling at takeoff power.

Regards,

Jim

Well I was there (g'wood) for 6 months (Argus F/E course) starting in
69 then Summerside till 77 and didn't hear about the uninvited gull
but I didn't have any close encounters with them...it's a real wonder
though because almost all of our business was 'rigging' long lines of
foreign fishing vessels with dozens of gulls flying around them.

Radar would find a big bunch of contacts, we'd head that way and
eventually see maybe a dozen ships in a couple of long lines trawling.

We'd go to action stations dive down to about 100 feet, fly down a
long line with all cameras going full bore, the AESOPS making their
type/description of each one, then zoom up, turn and dive back down
and 'do' the second line... Damned odd that we didn't hit any gulls.

We'd just ignore them, guess they're quick on the wing.

I'll wager they heard you coming.
--
Andrew Chaplin
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