May 18, 2008 The green laser ‘bird strike’ technology is currently in use at more than 40 airports around the world. Bird and wildlife strikes to aircraft costs the US civil aviation industry more than $600m annually, while 220 people have been killed world-wide as a result... 

March 26, 2008 Avian hazard: Lights on antennas and cell towers, such as these on a California ridge, can lure migratory birds, resulting in fatalities. Experts are studying the role of colors and flash rates. As many as 50 million birds are killed annually in US cell-tower... 

The just released FAA database lists 32 occurences of bird strikes into both engines within the last 18 years, not yet including the accident of US Airways US-1549, that successfully ditched in the Hudson River at New York. In average that database alone lists nearly two dual engine bird strikes per... 

July 14, 2009 Starlings forming fascinating formations over Tøndermarsken, south-west Jutland, Denmark. Airports have grappled with the issue of sharing the sky with members of the avian family for decades. Most recently, US Airways Flight 1549 was forced to make a water landing in the Hudson River... 

As the latest hearing on Flight 1549 gets under way, we go inside the nation’s top lab for investigating collisions between airplanes and feathered creatures. June 9, 2009 Every day, tucked five floors above the eight-ton African elephant that greets visitors at Washington’s Smithsonian... 

The certification requirements for commercial and military aircraft require that airframe components such as leading edges and canopies be designed to withstand bird strike. Certification for bird strike is mainly by test, but pre-test analysis is used to evaluate designs and to reduce the cost of... 

March 6, 2009 Sikorsky has alerted operators that certificated aftermarket cast acrylic windscreens built by Bell Helicopter affiliate Aeronautical Accessories are less tolerant to impact damage than the heavier original equipment glass and stretched acrylic windscreens built by Sikorsky. The action... 

November 21, 2008 Bird-strike damage protection rules could emerge as a key design hurdle facing developers of a new generation of fuel-efficient open rotor engines, according to a specialist on propeller powerplants. Speaking at the Towards Sustainable Aviation Propulsion event organised by the Institution... 

Radar and advanced radar signal processing technology can help make flying safer by avoiding bird strikes. In the wake of the emergency crash landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River on January 2009, the National Transportation Safety Board is conducting a hearing on implementing... 

June 14, 2009 Q. In January, 150 people were lucky to escape with their lives when bird strikes caused a plane to ditch in the Hudson River. Why can’t they install a heavily reinforced steel shield over the engine intakes to prevent the birds from being sucked into the engine? – Stephen...