the hard way...

 

JESUS CHRIST!!! how fast was that guy going?? He absolutely DESTROYED that bird..

 

Hopefully, the driver and passenger are ok? Looks like the impact point was right in the center of the windscreen and fortunately missed the occupants!

 

If we could have only gotten the look on your face when that bird hit, now that would have been priceless. Bird strikes happen in aviation with devastating results. On the serious side, glad it hit where it did or we would have had to get this from the news. Now replace that windshield and get back out there and fight.

 

It wasn't me, it is clearly a German car and the photos are doing the rounds here.

Don't know the story or how fast birds fly........

 

Those pic have been all over the net. I never believed they were real unless you had a very, very, strange situation. But, RC on rennteam says he knows the owner.

Whatever. I would rather have this "bird" in my Boxstir.

 

Agreed, less feathers. Much less

 

That had to have been a 90degree hit. If it had been heading straight toward the car, it would have ricochetted off. It just about had to have been comming down toward the windshield, because I think anything less than 90 degrees would have bounced off. About 10 years ago, a friend hit a Mallard with a Cobra helicopter at about 110 knots, which, I guess is about 118 mph, with no damage, except to my friends underwear.

Bill Seifert

1998 Boxster

 

Does a Cobra have bullet resistant windscreens?

 

I don't think so. They were plastic though. I can't, remember if we had the curved glass in them, or the later flat plate glass. It was pretty thick but not bullet resistant. On the earlier models we had a breakout knife in the helicopter, so obviously that wouldn't have been bullet resistant. On the later flat plate glass, I can't remember if we had a breakout knife or not. I retired four years ago, it's amazing how much stuff you forget.

Anyway, I doubt seriously if it was, weight, you know.

Bill

 

Yeah I hear you about weight. The Cherokee 180 I used to own had 1/8" plexiglass for all of it's glass. It weighed about 1250 lbs empty and IIRC it could take off at maximum weight of 2800 lbs.