140mph Bird Impact - Lateral-g Forums

TravisB · #1 10-24-2007, 09:20 PM

This a very good friend of ours truck. His name Stan Martin one of the smartest guys I know whne it comes to cars and racing.

He was at the Roadrunner open road race in texas a couple weeks ago running in the 140 class(truck has seen 170+) and was a few min into the race when all of sudden he sees a group of buzzards eating a deer on the side of the road. 6 Buzzards in all 5 of the lucky little guys got away the 6th well he didnt fair so well. Stan hit the buzzard at 142mph......

TravisB · #2 10-24-2007, 09:20 PM

mazspeed · #3 10-24-2007, 10:19 PM

I was expecting to see some serious damage. Very lucky it was only the windsheild from what I can see, and frayed nerves.

R67Chevelle · #4 10-25-2007, 12:30 AM

thats not a way to tenderize a bird... glad to hear he was not injured by this. I had a pigon hit my windshield at 70 and thought the windshield was going to blow up and that was half the speed...

Blessings,

**Spiffav8** · #5 10-25-2007, 02:08 AM

A bird strike can be some serious bad news! I've hit a bird in flight before and it scared the sh!t out of me.

Way to stay cool buddy!

deuce_454 · #6 10-25-2007, 03:01 AM

ive hit a seagull at 130mph once... very early morning, no trafic... hence the birds on the freeway... the strike sounded like sitting inside a bass-drum and i was sure the creature was the next occupant of the car.. but the windscreen held up and there were feathers like confetti in the rear view mirror... speaking of mirrors, love the mirrored writing on the windscreen...

glad to se no one was hurt, not counting the buzzard of course

what is the story on that IRS by the way???

TravisB · #7 10-25-2007, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by deuce_454

ive hit a seagull at 130mph once... very early morning, no trafic... hence the birds on the freeway... the strike sounded like sitting inside a bass-drum and i was sure the creature was the next occupant of the car.. but the windscreen held up and there were feathers like confetti in the rear view mirror... speaking of mirrors, love the mirrored writing on the windscreen...

glad to se no one was hurt, not counting the buzzard of course

what is the story on that IRS by the way???

I dont remember what the IRS is out of but stan installed it into the truck. He is a very good fabricator.