QUESTION: Has the KAO ever been damaged? ANSWER from Terry Rager on October 16, 1995: Fortunately the Kuiper has been fairly free of damage. The only things that Bill Hoss the flight engineer and I can think of are a few bird strikes where birds flew into the airplane, and we we had an engine seize on take off one time so we had to replace that engine. Thanks!!! Terry Rager, Project Pilot,KAO