Why scientists are dropping fake birds onto fake planes

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Why scientists are dropping fake birds onto fake planes
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Feedback looks into new research into whether air passengers need to worry about collisions with birds, and is relieved to discover no real animals were used in the experiments

To learn whether air taxi passengers need worry about collisions with birds, a crash programme in Germany did some tests.

It encountered difficulties, starting with “inconsistencies and lack of repeatability due to human involvement as the bird projectiles were dropped manually by hand”. Future efforts, the report says, “will eliminate the human involvement increase accuracy in force measurements and repeatability”.

As to those complications: “The moose would be pushed away by the V-shaped locomotive and would not cause a derailment, and the height of the moose thrown into the air cannot reach the height of the pantograph, which would prevent damage to the pantograph of a bullet train.”

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