Friday, February 20, 2009

How Does a Plane Avoid Birds?

Supposedly the crash that caused a plane to crash land in the Hudson River was caused by a bird getting stuck in the propeller. By the way, that crash was a miracle all of the passengers survived with minor injuries! God must have been watching over them! :) I was watching the news the other day and they had a story about this whole thing. They said they were looking at a way to avoid birds in the future.
My question is "Is that possible?!". I figure they're going to need a new job called the bird lookout. His job would be to spot birds and tell the pilots "Bird ahead!". The pilot would dive downwards or upwards or loop the loop to avoid a bird. Then the pilot would calmly say "Sorry everyone, we seem to have spotted a bird."
That all kind of reminds me of an old fashioned video game. You know the ones where if you hit anything you "lose a life"? Yup, that's what it would be like.
The only problem is......what if there was a flock of birds?

2 comments:

tren said...

well, you know how for cars they make these things that make some kind of noise that people can't hear but the deer can? they could make somthing like that for birds that they could put on the planes. (in my opinion anyway.)

deedee said...

Great idea!