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Boxster Meets Pheasant
Oops.
This dude's lucky to be alive. If it had hit him when it went though the windshield, he easily could have lost control.
Beautiful car, though.
S.
Last edited by srivendel; 08-11-2005 at 09:56 AM.
Is the birdy OK?
No.Originally Posted by POS Racing
S.
Lesson learned: Don't buy an automatic Porsche. Birds won't like it.
Thomas
V-to-the-Dub
I guess he wanted to test the Mythbusters idea of a bird making it through an airplane windscreen. From what I have heard the guy was doing 155 when this occurred. Guess the Boxsters winshield just isnt that special. :-D
Also a good reason to drive with your top down (although at 155, that would be entertaining). It would have been less messy if the birdie had made a clean exit.
S.
..and I was just gonna have lunch! :puke:
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pheasant tastes just like chicken!
Interesting. I was just reading an article on Phil Hill this morning that made a mention of a driver (whose name I forget) at the 1960 Belgian Grand Prix who was killed during the race by a birdstrike.
Iain
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
I haven't looked really closely at other aircraft, but a company I used to work for had a Lear 24B, so I saw it pretty regularly. In between the cockpit windows is a vertical metal bar shaped like a "T" with the bottom of the "T" protruding forward about an inch.
It's known as a "bird-splitter."
C
PS: You can see it in the photo below -- just some random Learjet I found on the 'net.
gross, that is the most disgusting thing I've seen in a while.
"Racing makes heroin addiction look like a vague longing for something salty" - Peter Egan
That's crazy...The driver is lucky the bird did not fly into the front of the driver's side.
No more Miata
That's just nasty...
So what was the bird clocked at?
ahhh that poor car!
I love what they did with the new Boxter, beautiful!
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Yeah shooting that bird through the windsheild just really puts the car in a class of its own!ahhh that poor car!
I love what they did with the new Boxter, beautiful!
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It looks like too muchcaused
(poor birdie) which causes
(sorry, thought I'd have a little fun with the smilies)
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