http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/howbirdscandownajetairplane

Get some chicken wire.

Bloody journalists.

Quoteleaving questions about how a little flying animal could down a big airliner.

By flying into the engines, retard.

little flying animals.. geese.. nah surely not? they are rather large last time i looked

I love the concept of this sound canon that Nasa have, thatd be cool to have.

I say we copy the guy in india that was hired to dress up as a monkey to scare the other monkeys away from a train station.

Get some people to stand around flapping there arms, instant job vacancies right there!

Quote from: sdpGet some chicken wire.

They test the engines by firing frozen chickens into them from a canon, one of these birds is going to be doing over 200mph when it goes in. Chicken wire wouldnt stand a chance. In order to put a grid on the front that would withstand the impact you are talking about adding a couple of tons on the intake of each engine.

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Quote from: sdpGet some chicken wire.

They test the engines by firing frozen chickens into them from a canon, one of these birds is going to be doing over 200mph when it goes in. Chicken wire wouldnt stand a chance. In order to put a grid on the front that would withstand the impact you are talking about adding a couple of tons on the intake of each engine.

A Carbon fiber cone that has a point out towards the front of the cone and extends to the intake, this should atleast deflect birds. If it was constructed in a way that has small holes, but lots of small holes, or biggish holes, somthing that would just let a small bird through.

Laser grid.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f9d_1232215032

Chesley B Sullenberger III did a good job landing that plane though.

Quote from: mr_rollA Carbon fiber cone that has a point out towards the front of the cone and extends to the intake, this should atleast deflect birds. If it was constructed in a way that has small holes, but lots of small holes, or biggish holes, somthing that would just let a small bird through.

1 Most of these engines are big, some you can easily stand in the inlet.

2 because they are big there is a lot of air passing through, anything in the way will lower performance and efficiency, drastically increasing costs and expenditure.

3 a cone big enough to deflect a bird of that size would change the airflow so much the engine might not work at all.

This is really a very rare, almost unique, incident, the engines blades are made out of materials like titanium, so they arent exactly fragile. By the time you weigh up all the costs its not worth doing.

Would you want that if its going to put up to 25% on your flight costs?

Quote from: Serious

Quote from: sdpGet some chicken wire.

They test the engines by firing frozen chickens into them from a canon, one of these birds is going to be doing over 200mph when it goes in. Chicken wire wouldnt stand a chance. In order to put a grid on the front that would withstand the impact you are talking about adding a couple of tons on the intake of each engine.

I bet if you fired a frozen chicken at 200mph at some sturdy chicken wire it would bounce back or given sufficient speed, be diced into small chunks which the engine can mush up, cook and pass on to hungry families in economy class.

Quote from: sdp

Quote from: Serious

Quote from: sdpGet some chicken wire.

They test the engines by firing frozen chickens into them from a canon, one of these birds is going to be doing over 200mph when it goes in. Chicken wire wouldnt stand a chance. In order to put a grid on the front that would withstand the impact you are talking about adding a couple of tons on the intake of each engine.

I bet if you fired a frozen chicken at 200mph at some sturdy chicken wire it would bounce back or given sufficient speed, be diced into small chunks which the engine can mush up, cook and pass on to hungry families in economy class.

You believe that a piece of paper with Japanese writing on stops bullets if you strap it on the front of your chest, dont you? :/