Blue Angels bird strike at Naval Academy Commissioning Week

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Blue Angels bird strike at Naval Academy Commissioning Week

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On May 27, one of the Blue Angels F/A-18E Super Hornet jets hit a bird during a flight rehearsal for Naval Academy Commissioning Week at Annapolis.
The Super Hornet, which hit a cormorant, landed safely with minor damage.
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Re: Blue Angels bird strike at Naval Academy Commissioning Week

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If my memory serves me right, a Cormorant was (is?) also a missile carried by German Navy F-104s & Tonka's... good thing the Blue Angel was able to land safely! :wink:
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Hi Bennie,
this Anti-Ship-Missile was called AS.34 "Kormoran", which is the german word for Cormorant. Out of service since 2012.
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aerobaticteams wrote: 28 May 2021, 09:52 The Super Hornet, which hit a cormorant, landed safely with minor damage.
Source: https://aerobaticteams.net/en/news/i333 ... -Week.html
...which is more than can be said of the hapless cormorant... :roll: :lol:
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Re: Blue Angels bird strike at Naval Academy Commissioning Week

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Bennie wrote: 28 May 2021, 10:08 If my memory serves me right, a Cormorant was (is?) also a missile carried by German Navy F-104s & Tonka's... good thing the Blue Angel was able to land safely! :wink:
A Super Hornet hitting a
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgustaWes ... _Cormorant
in-flight would be bad news... :twisted:

Joking aside, anyone happen to know the BuNo-serial of the "Super Bug" involved :?:
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