Bird hitting Evo @ 180 MPH

I think the bird realised what was about to happen and got slightly nervous..

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Crikey, bet that was a brown trousers moment...mind you is to be expected that it'll do big damage at those sort of speeds, given a seagull can conceivably take out aircraft if it hits it! See here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfLho8zzq8

Surprised to see the video says its at RAF Marham, given thats still a fully operation RAF Tornado base I'm surprised they open it to driving days - so much potential for things to go wrong resulting in debris/oil/general crap being spread all over the runways which would cause a hell of a FOD risk!
 
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if that ever happened to me i'd smear two hand prints on the bonnet as well and see how long I could drive around with it before being pulled by the police - "On my way to have it repaired sir!"

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Seen the handheld video before, but not the one from the fixed camera.

Did he go to swerve out the way? I know it's instinctive to do so but jesus, can you imagine what could have happened? :eek:

edit... nah, it looks like the car wandered when he came off the power. Still, very very scary.
 
SWEARRRRRRRIIIINGNGNGNGNGN!!!

Nasty looking mess. Looks like the camera man got showered with little bits of glass and feathers too :p
 
agw_01 said:
Did he go to swerve out the way? I know it's instinctive to do so but jesus, can you imagine what could have happened? :eek:
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I did my boss a favour last year by driving a Nissan pickup back to London from his place in Essex. I'd just turned onto the A13 and was accelerating up to around 50mph, and then a flash caught my eye and something slammed into the screen. I'd like to say that I calmly applied the brakes and brought the pickup to a safe stop, but that'd be a lie. I cacked it, plain and simple, ducked down and stood on the brakes. Luckily, no'one hit me (it would have completely my fault for having the Big-Jesse moment and panicking).
It was a goose, a bloody big goose. It had deflected off the front wing, slid up the bonnet and then hit the windscreen. There wasn't a lot of gore, or physical damage to the pickup, but was a ton of a grease-type material (a friend told me that it was the birds feather-waterproofing) and feathers everywhere.

The noise and bump of that impact terrified me, I really thought the thing was coming through the glass at me. My boss told me that it was quite a common occurance out his way. I was pretty disappointed at myself for reacting the way I did when it hit.
 
That's some scary stuff. Looks like it smacked the bonnet first and kind of took an upwards twist before hitting the screen. I wonder what a totally direct hit would have done.
And jebus, how strong is the evo's windscreen!.
 
atleast it hit the windscreen to wittness the moment. if it hit the radiator it will be a bummer to clean and the video woudnt of been as funny.

Thankgod for the laminate eh?
 
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