What happens if a bird flies into an F-16's air intake inlet.?

Question

What happens if a bird flies into an F-16's air intake inlet.?

Answer 1

A "Bird Hit".

Answer 2

it depends on the size of bird and engine

usually, the engine has a failsafe design which will shut down the engine so that if there are any damaged parts, it will not cause the whole engine to be damaged, and money can be saved on maintainance.

However, if the aircraft only has one engine, it would be better to have reduced power from that engine than no engine at all, so it would still opperate.

They do test the engines by throwing birds into it at the relative speed in cruise, and it has to be able to continue to run with % of power, or auto shut down

Answer 3

as long as it not your frozen thanksgiving Bird nothing

Answer 4

the turbines spin it to the outer edges and the afterburner barbeques it to a crisp.

Then, the pilot declares an emergency and lands.  The airframe gets a new engine while the one that suffered the strike gets torn down & rebuilt.  This is done in every instance of foreign object ingestion.

In the unlucky event that a turbine blade gets liberated, you might end up with an in-flight shut down.  Beyond that, I really don't know the F-16's capability for un-powered flight.  I would expect the pilot to dump the fuel and point it in a direction where it'll cause the least amount of damage and get the heck out of there.

Answer 5

the bird has a bad feather day

Answer 6

Nothing.

they test for this all the time. In fact all jet engines are tested to easily survive bird strikes.

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The bird hitting the windshield might be a different question.

Good Luck...

Answer 7

The following occurs: http://youtube.com/watch?v=zN_Zl64OQEw

Answer 8

chicken salad

Answer 9

F-16.....One

Bird......Nil

Answer 10

It comes out the other end.  The mission continues uneventfully.

Answer 11

the bird dies

Answer 12

My experience as a crew chief on F-16a,b,c,d, the bird usually strikes or bounces off the sides of the intake (noticeable by blood and feathers streaks) then usually down the fan part of the engine not the core. The eng gets a boroscope inspection to make sure everything is ok and if it is, it is sign off in the aircraft forms and thats the end of that. But if it go into the core of the eng, well then there is a eng change, the eng goes to be  taken apart to be thoroughly checked.

Oh one other thing bird strikes really stinks like road kill.

Answer 13

It gets plucked,roasted,diced,blended and sprayed across the sky!

Answer 14

Not much if it was the bird alone that was flying.

And then if you were flying the F16 ,

which one of you were still trying to fly

which one of you came down faster and how fast..

Modern engines are well tested but still bird hit related emergencies happen.