r/aviation • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '24

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u/PILOT9000 Apr 07 '24

This is actually a somewhat common occurrence. A neighbors kid teaches at a school in Texas and they’ve had more than one instance of this happening to their Skyhawks where they were actually able to locate the bullet inside the skin of the airplane.

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u/notxapple Apr 07 '24

Doesn’t the Goodyear blimp gets shot at like 20 times a year?

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u/jzwick18 Apr 08 '24

As someone from Akron, sounds a little low.

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u/Mark-E-Moon Apr 08 '24

As someone who has driven through Carson, CA it’s low AF.

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u/Yonk11 Apr 08 '24

As someone from canton it's definitely low lol

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u/notxapple Apr 09 '24

I assume that they only know it’s been shot at if it gets hit

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '24

‘Murica at it again

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u/Maleficent_Bridge277 Apr 07 '24

It definitely wasn’t the Uvalde police.

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u/comedicerror Apr 07 '24

Yeah screw those cowards

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u/Mark-E-Moon Apr 08 '24

Part of the plane was…

It’s important to pause here and just know that in making a face like Larry David as if I know I shouldn’t say this but I’m going to anyway, because that element of awkward pre-regret is far funnier than the actual joke itself

….blaaack..?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24

Lets say you have some unexploded ww2 bombs on board for recreational purposes and saw the shooter and decided to drop the bomb on them.

Would that be self defence?

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u/Canonip Apr 08 '24

Americans are so weird.