[TheForge] What the hell?

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

PUN BLOCKER!!!

jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com wrote:
> I know that some airports put out plastic Owls as deterrent for birds, Delta Airlines used to have a plaque of some sort at their gate noting why they had an owl on their ramp way.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 1/16/09, Jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: Jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net>
>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] What the hell?
>> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>> Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 4:18 PM
>> 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
>> -------------------------------
>> If it ain't forged
>> it ain't real.
>> Wrought iron is.
>> The FrostWorks
>>
>> Meadow Lakes, AK.
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>>
>> 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
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