[TheForge] What the hell?

[Jerry Frost]

What they did instead is start using a little common 
sense around airports. Being migratory birds meant some 
administrations wouldn't allow them to be molested at 
all so there wasn't anything to keep geese and other 
birds from resting and nesting on runways and the 
vicinity. Bird strikes cost more lives annually than 
the 24 lost that day.

Now there are automatic propane cannon, dogs and in 
some cases falcons used to chase them away from 
runways. Lakes Hood and Spenard in Anchorage, in 
addition, use pigs to eat eggs on the island between 
them. This helps protect the float plane basin and 
Anchorage International airport. Birds in other nesting 
and resting areas near by are similarly (without the 
pigs) encouraged to find another spot. A wet runway 
looks just like a nice calm lake to flying water fowl 
so . . .

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: "Roger Degner" <780 at mchsi.com>


> Sounds like they should outlaw geese
>
> Roger R Degner
>
>
> Sucking a 18-20lb bird through a turbine engine does
> BAD things to both. We lost an AWACS plane here a few
> years ago due to multiple bird strikes. Milspec 707
> lost all four engines on takeoff by flying into a 
> flock
> of Canadian Geese.
> Frosty