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The Tech Behind Preventing Airplane Bird Strikes

Posted by timothy on from the harder-than-it-seems dept.

the4thdimension writes "CNN is running an article covering the technology used at Sea-Tac for preventing airplane bird strikes, like the one that occurred weeks ago to the now famous Flight 1549. The hardware used ranges from low-tech pyrotechnics, to netting, to lasers, to avian radar. Using a combination of all these technologies, Sea-Tac believes they save hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in avoiding dangerous bird strikes."

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  1. Re:What about by John+Hasler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then you'll get bird plus titanium wire in the engine instead of just bird.

    There just isn't a material strong enough. Any structure that would reliably keep the birds out would be unaccepetably heavy and would restrict air flow.

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  2. Re:engine redesign? by Volante3192 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you were an engineer you'd realize it wasn't that easy...

  3. Re:It was more than one bird by flyingfsck · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is the little matter of the difference in speed between the plane and the bird too...

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  4. Now unemployed by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe if we just posted Cheney at the end of the runway with a shotgun...