B-52 bird strike

B-52 bird strike

Came across this video on TikTok. user @_andrew_t_ captured a B-52 ingesting at least 2 birds into the leftmost engines. The B-52 seemed unharmed by the strike and kept going. The user was extremely lucky to capture this occurrence. Though I bet the Crew chief is yelling, " I just overhauled that engine!".

a reply to: grey580

More like Jet Shop. There was a B-52 successfully landed on four engines on one side after a fuel issue. A bird strike will require at the least a borescope of the engine, and probably pulling and overhauling, but might not even have shut them down, depending on the birds and damage. That looks like it's only #7, so not a huge issue even if they had to shut it down.

a reply to: grey580 Now we got Blind Birds? A B52 is Kinda Hard not to see Nick name BUFF.... Big Ugly Flying Fellow ....or the Other....

a reply to: ZED332L

We are not in Kansas no more Toto....

a reply to: ZED332L

Birds don't exactly look around for planes.

Evolution in play. Birds that fly into jet plane engines can't procreate.