Category: News

FAA proposes new test for engine bird strikes

7 July 2018 News by Gary Searing
Nine years after the “Miracle on the Hudson” landing, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing a test that would require engine makers prove that their engines can sustain strikes from medium-sized birds while climbing or descending, according to a draft notice of the proposed rule. Engines are currently tested at 100 percent takeoff power
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Bird Collision Avoidance System

4 January 2018 News by Gary Searing
RIYADH: A highly innovative system that can save thousands of lives and millions of dollars in losses inflicted by collisions between aircraft and birds was launched here on Tuesday. The Bird Collision Avoidance System (BCAS), developed by the Bulgarian company Volacom, has been recognized by the General Authority of Civil Aviation, the state-owned aviation regulatory
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Snowy owl eruption

18 December 2017 News by Gary Searing
If we needed yet another example of the far-reaching connectivity of ecosystems, habitat and the species that dwell on this planet, the snowy owl comes through for us. This majestic resident of the open tundra of the high Arctic has been making appearances throughout the Lake Erie region over the past month, here on a
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