It’s Official
CNN announces: Canada geese brought Flight 1549 down, NTSB says
Adult Canada geese weigh between 5.8 and 10.7 pounds, although birds from resident populations rather than migratory populations can be heavier.
The plane’s CFM56-5B/P turbofan engines were certified in 1996 as being able to withstand bird ingestion of 4 pounds.
The NTSB said last week that both engines contained the remains of birds, confirming the pilots’ report that the engines shut down after colliding with birds less than two minutes after taking off from from New York’s LaGuardia Airport.
It’s time for a Northern Anti-Goose System. It will create jobs and stimulate the economy, I know NAGS always keep me away.
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Wahooo!! Show me the moneeeeeeyyyyyy! 😀
As Daffy Duck said: “Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I’m rich.”
and: “Oh ho boy I’m rich! I’m wealthy! I’m independent! I’m socially secure! I’m rich! I’m rich!”
So… where’s the contract? 😉
LOL
…I heard about the Canuckistanian terrorist goose confirmation on NPR on the way home and got to thinking about that whole thing. Googling led me to this fascinating webpage. The whole idea of picking 4 lbs. as the “large bird ingestion” value suggests that one’s air traveling life would be all good as long as every effort was made to avoid flocking birds that individually weigh more than that…
I don’t know nothin’ about air travel except to sit in my seat and hope the plane don’t crash, but I do know that slashing through an unsuspecting flock of Canada geese at over 200 mph in a turbine-powered aircraft with engine inlets that are nearly 6 feet in diameter is easily going to exceed certification standards by ingesting waaaay more than 4 p0unds of bird into each engine. I understand all that cost/benefit stuff, but I would like to think as I squeeze into that window seat a couple of composite layers from certain doom that I would come out on the ‘benefit’ side of the equal sign….
It would be nice if there were so many airports and fields in the flyways. They were a big problem at Offutt in Nebraska, South of Omaha. We were constantly sucking them in, and occasionally losing a windshield when the big jets were taking off. When you are on the Missouri River surrounded by corn fields you have to assume they will be in the airspace.
Ah, Kryten, a bottle of Moosehead, a toque, and a hockey jersey is about the max anyone should expect, eh. Canada is in not much better shape than the US.
“Where’s the Kaboom? There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering Kaboom!”
“K9 do you suppose all earth creatures behave like thataway?”
*sniff* Hmmpf!
We can round up all of the whackos currently patrolling the Mexican border and space them along the Canadian border with 10 gauge goose guns and watch them drive themselves into the ground firing those cannon. Oh, I wouldn’t put any shot in the shells, that would just pollute the ground when it came down.
It would keep them out of trouble and you could give them cheap medals and merit badges for the effort. More jobs and stimulus.
If we put out a contract Raytheon would probably want to do something with lasers or tasers that would never work, but would generate huge bonuses for the project managers.
Nooooooooooooooo!!! I wanna be a capitalist toooo!! 😐
“It’s mine, you understand? Mine, mine! All mine! Go, go, go! Mine, do you hear me? Out, out, out! Mine, mine, mine! Go away! There’s only enough for me!”
Put together a proposal and find a Republican to sponsor it. Unfortunately most of your best bets have left to spend more time with their
defense attorneysfamilies, but there are more where they came from, if you promise to put a plant in their district that will generate a lot of jobs. [Remember that kudzu is a plant, and it damn sure has created a lot of work.]