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This seems to be the week for bird strike related ideas, so I might as well toss my hat into the ring.
Some airports employ a falcon or hawk to fly around and scare geese away before planes take off. However, this only clears the area right around the runways and doesn't prevent bird strikes once
the plane is a few miles away but still at low altitude.
Therefore I petition the Federal Aviation Administration to require six Red-Tailed Hawk shaped kites to be installed on every aircraft, placed at various locations on the fuselage. These should be deployed whenever the plane is less than 10,000 feet above ground.
The bulk of the trip will be kite-free; the increased drag will only affect a few minutes around takeoff and landing.
Thank you.
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The kites won't respond well to this curtailed freedom. Besides, who will feed the kites in flight - is this the responsibility of the in-flight catering and are they experienced in feeding fuselage-attached birds of prey? |
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I had the image of a person, with a basket full of kites balanced on his head, trying to sell them to the passengers and crew of a transatlantic flight. |
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[Ian], I'll be happy to change the title to Kite Kites. But would geese recognize or respond to Kites? |
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