That's pretty sweet. I'd bet the bird-strike-induced-pucker-factor is huge.

Reminds me of a Marine Colonel I once knew. When he was a young A-4 pilot, he got in trouble because he had a pretty bad bird-strike on his aircraft. The investigation board was pretty sure he was screwin' around at high speed and low altitude, but they couldn't prove it. He stuck to his guns that he was above 15000 feet. He even dug up evidence that bird-strikes had been documented at 17000 feet. They let him off the hook.

Years later, over a beer, he told me he was, in fact, a bit out of regs on that flight. He was doing 500 knots at about 50 feet over the desert. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />