evangilder
"Shooter"
It is amazing how much damage they can do. When I was at Lakenheath, they had a falconer with all kinds of things to keep the birds away, yet even then, we had birdstrikes on takeoffs and landings there. I watched one happen on a landing F-111. He flared the horizontal stabs and I saw it coming. A loud thud was followed by a cloud of feathers. Put a hell of a dent in it, but the plane was okay. The bird was KIA