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Wasn't me but one of my fellow club members hit a turkey vulture landing at Grinnell two weeks ago. Went right through the wind screen and hit him in the face. Somehow it didn't hit the prop so that saves a TON of cost, downtime and headache. Thankfully he regained his senses and was able to land safely.
 
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wxman1 said:
Wasn't me but one of my fellow club members hit a turkey vulture landing at Grinnell two weeks ago. Went right through the wind screen and hit him in the face. Somehow it didn't hit the prop so that saves a TON of cost, downtime and headache. Thankfully he regained his senses and was able to land safely.
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Are you sure it wasn't Herky? It looks a lot like a turkey buzzard....
 
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Was just on a flight yesterday wearing a Cyclones shirt and a flight attendant told me Go Hawks. I didn't feel safe anymore if she was the one working that flight. (This wasn't even a flight anywhere near Iowa).
 
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Darius Bieber said:
Was just on a flight yesterday wearing a Cyclones shirt and a flight attendant told me Go Hawks. I didn't feel safe anymore if she was the one working that flight. (This wasn't even a flight anywhere near Iowa).
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Sometimes you just have to request a parachute and say a little prayer for all of the souls left on the plane.
 
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wxman1 said:
Wasn't me but one of my fellow club members hit a turkey vulture landing at Grinnell two weeks ago. Went right through the wind screen and hit him in the face. Somehow it didn't hit the prop so that saves a TON of cost, downtime and headache. Thankfully he regained his senses and was able to land safely.
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If a turkey vulture hit him in the face, I doubt he avoided a headache :)
 
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Darius Bieber said:
Was just on a flight yesterday wearing a Cyclones shirt and a flight attendant told me Go Hawks. I didn't feel safe anymore if she was the one working that flight. (This wasn't even a flight anywhere near Iowa).
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Maybe she honestly didn't know the difference.

I've had maybe a dozen people in Florida in the last 13 years confuse my gear with Iowa. Most don't even realize it's a different school. I have to say, "It's like Gators and Seminoles." If they still don't get it (the ones from the Northeast who don't know anything about college sports) I say, "It's like Yankees and Red Sox."
 
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coolerifyoudid said:
Sometimes you just have to request a parachute and say a little prayer for all of the souls left on the plane.
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lmao true, we were all doomed if we needed help.

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Maybe she honestly didn't know the difference.

I've had maybe a dozen people in Florida in the last 13 years confuse my gear with Iowa. Most don't even realize it's a different school. I have to say, "It's like Gators and Seminoles." If they still don't get it (the ones from the Northeast who don't know anything about college sports) I say, "It's like Yankees and Red Sox."
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Could be, but when my shirt literally says in bold lettering "Iowa State Cyclones" not sure how that could be confusing with the Hawkeyes. I did remind her it was a Cyclone state and she got quiet after that.
 
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I was doing flight training in an old Cessna 150. Still remember 82 Quebec. Thing would shake and rattle trying to get it off the runway. The shoulder harness didn't latch properly nor did the left side door. My instructor told me to put the plane into a tight left hand turn. Upon doing so I put my weight on the door with no shoulder harness. It sprung open and I was left dangling by my lap belt at about 1500 feet. Happened so fast I didn't even have a chance to get scared. Felt the plane level out and my instructor grabbing me by the shirt pulling me back in. He asked if I wanted to work on anything else that day and I responded "landing".
 
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Pretty scary landing in Des Moines a couple of years ago. Not sure if the plane was coming in too hot or what. The "oh sh##, this might be it" feeling hit me for a few seconds. Everything ended up fine though.
 
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wxman1 said:
Wasn't me but one of my fellow club members hit a turkey vulture landing at Grinnell two weeks ago. Went right through the wind screen and hit him in the face. Somehow it didn't hit the prop so that saves a TON of cost, downtime and headache. Thankfully he regained his senses and was able to land safely.
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I would think this isn’t supposed to happen but I’ve heard other instances also. Had a coworker who drove a 1967 F100 he was restoring to work one night. On his way home a Great Horned Owl went through the windshield he’d replaced ~ a month earlier. Ended up on the seat right next to him.
 
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Acylum said:
I would think this isn’t supposed to happen but I’ve heard other instances also. Had a coworker who drove a 1967 F100 he was restoring to work one night. On his way home a Great Horned Owl went through the windshield he’d replaced ~ a month earlier. Ended up on the seat right next to him.
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Let's just say there have been significant engineering advances since our 1978 Cessna was designed and made.
 
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Seen that episode and figured he was gone and a few minutes. Then at the end of the show they announced he lived..... unless I have the wrong episode.

My one scary experience had nothing to do with me being in the plane. Both my parents grew up on farms in Iowa but my Dad got a job that put us in Farmington NM for about 3 years. Dad got his pilots license so we could fly back to Iowa to see family. We almost always rented the same Beechcraft Bonanza airplane to fly back and most of the time we flew out of Aztec, which was way up on a hill compared the the elevation of the town. One summer not long after we had flown back to NM, I was at a friends and somehow we ended up at High School FB field that was down the hill pretty close to the airport. I see a plane flying low that was smoking pretty badly and you could hear the engine sputtering. Flew right over the football field. I ran up the bleachers to watch it and could tell it was the plane we rented(good with remembering numbers and seen call letters on plane). He was about 100' short of the runway and hit the hill below the runway and started smoking a lot worse. I think the guy that crashed was hurt pretty badly but wasn't killed, at least initially, in the crash. Went home and told the parents we wouldn't be renting that plane anymore and they thought I was full of crap until they seen it on the news.
 
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Drop (or Turn) #1, Wildfire coaster, Silver Dollar City.

I was good after I survived that! LOL
 
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