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Taildraggers and Grass StripsBy lex, on November 18th, 2008
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Holy Cow!
Ok, that out of the way, isn’t one of the things they teach you in flight training something about obstacles on emergency landings?
de Havilland 1: cow 0
Might have missed it if he’d checked the left side a little more. looked like he just barely clipped it, I’ll bet the meat was still good. Probably some fabric repair was needed though.
Beef! It’s what’s for dinner.
Cow tipping. Just a little tap, mind you – anything more and it could prove fatal to all involved!
Looks like they clipped the cow with the trailing edge – aileron/flap, whatever it is on that bird.
:-0 From considerable personal experience, I find cattle to be remarkable tough creatures; horses not so much. Sorry Kat. Definitely in need of a Vet check! Lex does your flight insurance cover these sort of mishaps?
Udderly unbelievable negligence!
Actually, that cow might have survived. I’ve hit them at full gallop on a horse a few times, I think I probably came out worse off than either the horse or the cow on those deals. You can knock them tail over teakettle, but that skull is pretty well armored.
My mother-in-law reports landing in Cordova, Alaska back in ’68 or so, and while on short final a moose decided to wander onto the runway. That one didn’t work so well for the moose or the aircraft. The pilot apparently put the nose gear right on the back of the moose, so while there was no engine damage a new front landing gear had to be flown in. She mainly remembers the pilot reporting his status to the ATC as “There’s moose juice everywhere!”
– Max
Hmmm. Food for thought. That could happen to me around here as there are several pastures adjacent to my grass strip. if I lost power on take off and had to put her down the opportunity to make sausage is a distinct possibility. Not that I’d want to.
Greetings:
Back in ’68, I was in helicopter training at Fort Wolters, Texas. One of the joys of my life at that time was racing out to the staging fields in the morning in a OH-23 to clear the cattle (it was Texas) off. Never was able to actually make contact, though.
Animals and birds are more agile than we sometimes think. A friend had a Night Twister homebuilt Biplane and tried to hit a Red Tailed Hawk with it. He never came close. Like the Moose incident, if the AC ever made solid contact with a being of the bovine persuasion, the cow might be Big Macs and Whoppers the next day, but the plane would likely be a loss too. The pilot would most likely see the results up close and personal immediately.
Google “airplane giraffe”. More bent metal. Saw the video at PPRuNe last week… I’d be willing to bet that the cow made off with a sore back/neck/head and not worse – the actual impact appeared to be relatively light.
kinda begs the question, “how IS the cow?”
somebody find me a plebe with the answer.
Not a plebe, but the answer is:
She walks, she talks, she’s full of chalk, the lacteal fluid extracted from the female of the bovine species is highly prolific to the (aproximate number of glasses of milk remaining in cartons) nth degree.
Gotta love Reef Points.
Cows aren’t just innocent victims, you know.
Recalling an overnight cross-country in an Aeronca. Camped under the wing, planning to head back home the next morning.
Woke up around dawn with a bunch of them in a circle around us, looking thoughtful. Couldn’t leave the plane to do anything else while we waited for the fog to lift; the cattle tended to wander in and try to sample the fabric covering.
Good thing we didn’t spend the night in a field full of goats.