Narrative:

We were on the takeoff roll from runway 04 at phmu. At or just before rotation speed of 70 knots; I saw something small and black go straight over the aircraft. I thought we had just barely missed whatever it was. The captain I was flying with said it was a bird and it had gone through the propeller. I didn't see it go through the propeller; and neither of us felt a 'thud' or any sort of impact from the bird. All of our engine instruments were reading normal; there were no unusual vibrations from the propeller; and none of our avionics or radios had gone offline. Although we were no more than a couple miles from the airport and a thousand feet or so in altitude; we elected to continue to our destination.the flight continued uneventfully. Upon arrival; we discovered some residue from the bird that we had hit on a four inch section of one of the propeller blades. That was the only evidence that we had of a bird strike; and the plane took no damage elsewhere. The propeller blade suffered nothing more than a few smears; and maintenance quickly inspected and returned the aircraft to service.in hindsight; our decision to continue was unsafe. We had no idea if or how much damage the aircraft had taken; if it had taken any at all. We were close to the airport and could have easily returned for landing. There is no maintenance base; though; but that is no excuse to [not] land there. And since we were just rotating as the bird struck; I could have called to abort the takeoff; as we had more than enough runway available to stop the aircraft. Both of our decision making was hindered that day; as we were both tired and had already started the flight catching errors.

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Title: An air taxi aircraft struck a bird on the takeoff roll from PHMU and continued to their destination where Maintenance found bird strike evidence on one of the propeller blades.

Narrative: We were on the takeoff roll from runway 04 at PHMU. At or just before rotation speed of 70 knots; I saw something small and black go straight over the aircraft. I thought we had just barely missed whatever it was. The captain I was flying with said it was a bird and it had gone through the propeller. I didn't see it go through the propeller; and neither of us felt a 'thud' or any sort of impact from the bird. All of our engine instruments were reading normal; there were no unusual vibrations from the propeller; and none of our avionics or radios had gone offline. Although we were no more than a couple miles from the airport and a thousand feet or so in altitude; we elected to continue to our destination.The flight continued uneventfully. Upon arrival; we discovered some residue from the bird that we had hit on a four inch section of one of the propeller blades. That was the only evidence that we had of a bird strike; and the plane took no damage elsewhere. The propeller blade suffered nothing more than a few smears; and maintenance quickly inspected and returned the aircraft to service.In hindsight; our decision to continue was unsafe. We had no idea if or how much damage the aircraft had taken; if it had taken any at all. We were close to the airport and could have easily returned for landing. There is no maintenance base; though; but that is no excuse to [not] land there. And since we were just rotating as the bird struck; I could have called to abort the takeoff; as we had more than enough runway available to stop the aircraft. Both of our decision making was hindered that day; as we were both tired and had already started the flight catching errors.

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