Monday, November 4, 2024

North American F-100 Airplane (NACA 709), with Pilot George Cooper. What happens if a goose gets sucked into that intake?

 


6 comments:

  1. He gets to test how well it glides and possibly test the ejection seat too. Everything that enters a fighter jet's intake goes into the axial compressor with its fragile blades.
    Al_in_Ottawa

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  2. I had one of those Revel plastic F-100 models back in the day.

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  3. Arctic ducks are more dangerous because eider the plane crashes or it does not.

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  4. Dead duck and hopefully a pilot with only dirty underwear

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  5. Hopefully the compressor chews the goose and spits it out the backside. But what mostly will happen is engine go boom, big badda boom and you meet the after-action report committee on the other side of the Pearly Gates.

    Or you get a flameout and you try to restart the damned thing and you fight it and fight it and about the time you think of ejecting you hit the ground or the plane enters into a serious spin and breaks up and you die.

    Maybe, just maybe, you can eject. Possibly dead stick the beast into a better position so you don't get whacked by the tail. And remember, elbows pointed in so you don't shave them off on the way out.

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  6. The simplest answer is nothing good…

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