Alex, maybe you are working for the wrong arm of the government...Bird traffic controller
The Israeli ornithologist Yossi Leshem is no ordinary twitcher. An expert in bird migration patterns across the Middle East, he has turned his passion into a small industry responsible for saving the Israeli air force more than half a billion dollars in hardware - and, no doubt, the lives of several pilots. Fred Pearce hears how he has even turned migrating birds into unlikely emissaries for peace.
just turned on the science channel. some show about helicopters. talking about the composition of the windshield to guard against bird collisions. the company that makes the windshield has a tube which fires dead birds at 300 mph to test the glass composites.
frozen chickens? there's a similar test for jet engines.
not frozen pheasant-in-a-sack.
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- jim 10-23-2004 8:46 pm
just turned on the science channel. some show about helicopters. talking about the composition of the windshield to guard against bird collisions. the company that makes the windshield has a tube which fires dead birds at 300 mph to test the glass composites.
- dave 10-24-2004 1:49 am [add a comment]
frozen chickens? there's a similar test for jet engines.
- mark 10-24-2004 3:33 am [add a comment]
not frozen pheasant-in-a-sack.
- dave 10-24-2004 5:48 am [add a comment]