Study: Aircraft Lighting Influences Bird Strikes
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A cannon firing dead chickens is the standard tool for testing to ensure aircraft and their engines can withstand bird strikes. Chickens are used because they are easy to obtain and standardize, and represent the worse-case scenario as stand-ins for wild birds in impact testing. But dead chickens...
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