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Rulemaking Group Tasked with Helo Bird-strike Defense

4 May 2016 News by Gary Searing

Recommendations for upgrading helicopter bird strike protection rules have been assigned as a new task for the FAA/Industry Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC). Present bird protection regulations apply only to transport-category rotorcraft and have not been updated since being adopted in 1966. The FAA says current data shows an increase in bird population and weight
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Flight diverts to Phoenix after bird strike cracks window

22 April 2016 News by Gary Searing

PHOENIX (AP) — An American Airlines plane diverted to Phoenix after a bird strike cracked a cockpit window during takeoff from Las Vegas on a flight to Charlotte, North Carolina. Airline spokesman Matt Miller says nobody was injured and that the six crew members and 174 passengers boarded another plane in Phoenix early Thursday morning
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Death from above for migratory songbirds at Ottawa airport

21 April 2016 News by Gary Searing

A Transport Canada database reveals that passenger jets have twice struck flocks of birds at the Ottawa International Airport this spring. Already this year, 16 bird strikes have been reported at the airport, including one incident last month in which a WestJet Dash 8 turboprop collided with a flock of migratory snow buntings during its
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Acoustic Scarecrows: A Humane, Non-Lethal Way To Reduce Bird Strikes?

20 April 2016 News by Gary Searing

People like to build airports on, or very close to, sites that have been used for millennia as resting and refueling stopovers by migrating birds. And this creates a lot of conflicts. The Bird Strike Committee USA estimates almost $1 billion in damages occur annually to American civil and military aircraft due to wildlife and
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THIS will get them in a flap: Robotic falcon ‘Robird’ set to patrol airports in a bid to prevent bird strikes

15 April 2016 News by Gary Searing

'Robird' will take to the skies above Dusseldorf Weeze airport in Germany There are two designs, a falcon for small birds and an eagle for larger ones Dutch-designed robot uses flapping motion and is controlled by a pilot Bird strikes represent one of the most acute dangers to aircraft, but one European airport believes it
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Sonic scarecrow

15 April 2016 News by Gary Searing

A new way to shoo birds away from airports BIRDS were an inspiration for early aviators, but they are a pilot’s nightmare. Collisions with birds are reckoned to cost America’s airlines almost $1 billion in repairs and flight delays annually. When a multiple bird-strike knocked out both engines of a US Airways Airbus A320 taking
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Drones Pose Less Risk to Commercial Airplanes than Birds Do

18 March 2016 News by Gary Searing

Late last year, a study found that there were 327 close encounters between airplanes and recreational drones over a period of 21 months, and warned that it was just a matter of time before there was a serious collision between the two. The study, conducted by the Center for the Study of the Drone at
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Bird strike forces 737 to return to Calgary International Airport

19 November 2015 News by Gary Searing

A Canadian North charter plane destined for Fort MacKay made an emergency landing after an engine ingested one or more birds. An airport employee on the ground reported hearing a loud boom and witnessing fire resonating from the enging of the Boeing 737-300 shortly before 6:00 p.m. According to a passenger on board the flight,
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A sonic net excludes birds from an airfield: implications for reducing bird strike and crop losses

13 November 2015 News by Gary Searing

John Swaddle, Dana Moseley, Mark Hinders, and Elizabeth Payton Smith. In press. A sonic net excludes birds from an airfield: implications for reducing bird strike and crop losses. Ecological Applications. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/15-0829.1 Collisions between birds and aircraft cause billions of dollars of damages annually to civil, commercial, and military aviation. Yet technology to reduce bird strike
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Planting Prairies at Airports Could Make Flying Safer

21 September 2015 News by Gary Searing

Those landing at Dayton International Airport next year will descend from the spacious skies into the fruited plains. Thanks to aviation director Terrence Slaybaugh’s groundbreaking prairie grass program, they’ll be greeted by songbirds, wildflowers, and shoulder-high grass instead of the typical turf. Dayton International isn’t doing it for the views. In an effort to make
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