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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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I used to fly for Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. When a bird hits a wing it has to be checked to see how much damage, where and what kind of disruption it will cause to the airflow. This takes time and many times they have to replace that part of the leading edge and even possibly do a flight test. If its not too bad they just let it fly home and be repaired at the maintenance base.
Better to check it out and make sure than have the airplane roll one direction on takeoff and not be flyable...
JoeA
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