Fear of Flying

[MrTrik]

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I related a story here about a plane I was in sucking a bird into an engine on takeoff, and ever since then I'm a wreck on takeoff.

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I don't know if anyone mentioned this in the previous thread or the details of the story, but some of the testing for airplanes includes launching frozen turkeys into the engines. They think of everything.

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I have done contract work for a company that does very little but test windheilds, wing edges, and engines using such techniques. I have been grounded as a passenger due to a goose cracking the windshiled. But I am fairly confindent you could fly a flock of unfrozen birds through an engine and come out just fine because I've seen how an engine handles an 18 lb. frozen turkey. You should see some of the other stuff they use. Seems a bit against my common sense, but I've seen such tests first hand.