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The RSPB claims pollution and the use of bird-strike controls to protect passenger planes carrying between 200,000 and two million people a year will be devastating for the area's wildlife.

Activists prepare for battle to save countryside from the developers 2011

Further bird behavioral changes are another wild card in the bird-strike management equation.

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Now the lab reports it can ID about 90 percent of the bird-strike remains it receives.

BSI: Bird Strike Investigation 2009

Used in more than 15 countries for tasks such as ferrying workers to and from offshore oil platforms and transporting government officials, the helicopters include advanced safety features such as energy-absorbing seats, bird-strike protection systems and anti-icing equipment for rotors.

FAA Sets Immediate Fixes for Some Sikorsky Helicopters 2009

The chopper is built by the Sikorsky unit of United Technologies Corp., and includes advanced safety features such as energy-absorbing seats, bird-strike protection systems and anti-icing equipment for rotors.

FAA May Ground Sikorsky Helicopters 2009

The FAA did admit to an increase in bird-strike incidents, reporting 7,666 bird strikes in 2007 compared to 1,759 in 1990.

AIR TRAVEL AND ITS IMPACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE 2009

FAA officials resisted the release of the bird-strike database on the grounds that it could be misinterpreted and might discourage airlines or airports from reporting incidents.

U.S. Aviation Faces Surging Bird-Strike Threat 2009

Cutting-edge safety features including crash-worthy seats and bird-strike protection, and its all-weather capability makes it one safe whirlybird.

Priciest Private Planes © Boeing Most... 2006

As a result, bird-strike DNA analysis has become a vital part of aviation safety.

Bird Plus Plane Equals Snarge Jeff Rice 2005

The work was done in San Antonio, using a compressed-nitrogen gun with a thirty-five-foot barrel, normally used to fire dead chickens — real and artificial — against aircraft structures in bird-strike certification tests.

Columbia's Last Flight 2003