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Avoiding Airliner Bird Strikes By Using Warning Lights
Keeping birds away from airliners may be getting some help from a model airplane. Robert Benincasa at NPR reports: “When US Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency landing in the Hudson River in January after hitting geese, it turned the… Read more >
Amorous Turtles Disrupt Flight Schedules At JFK
After the flap about bird strikes that caused an emergency landing in the Hudson, a lower and slower species was causing problems near Jamaica Bay. “Birds we’ve heard about. But turtles? It sounds too strange to be true, but 78 of the shelled… Read more >
Can Commerical Air Lines Act More Like Geese?
A university-based contest called “Fly Your Idea” is producing interesting ideas for more environmentally-sound flight including borrowing some ideas from geese. Physorg.com reports: “A team of five doctoral students from the Aeronautics and Astronautics program has conceptualized a way for… Read more >
