Originally Posted by rt3232

Hi franklin

Your pic's do show a lot, I hit a bird when flying my first cross country in getting my Privet LIc., in a T-Craft @ 90 indicated just to the left of the wind screen with at the leading edge took out the first 2 ribs crushed the L/E back to the main sparr, ( scared the S%$#t out of me ) as I was letting down to inter the landing pattern, My instructor and the school owner said at the time I was lucky it had not come thru the prop and the wind screen. Don't have a picture any more do to a house fire, but I will never forget that incident.
PS this was back in 1950

Cheers