Aviation wildlife strikes?

Question

Anyone know a good source for information on this topic? I want to know about bird strikes, animals on airport vicinity, etc and how it can be prevented. Anyone got a good link for data compiled on such events?

Answer 1

http://wildlife-mitigation.tc.faa.gov/pu...

This page is the official government page for exactly what you are asking about.

Answer 2

Bird strikes are bad, but deer strikes on the ground are worse.  At the flight school I work at we had a Duchess hit a deer.  The plane just had some damage to the left gear, ripped the gear door off.  The deer was cut in half, literally.  In the seven years of operation at the flight school (average 100 flights a day) this is only the second animal strike on the ground.

Answer 3

Wow. Never had a bird strike in four decades of flyin. Lear jet was doing bird strike testing. They'd fire a chicken out of a cannon at the windshield. The windshield broke about ten times in a row so they called an engineer. Then engineer took a look at the broken windshields and then looked at the chickens and said,

"Thaw the chicken".

Answer 4

I recently saw an awesome U Tube video taken by Simon Lowe.  It's a 737 eating a bird on take off.   You can access it  along with many others here, http://www.google.com.sg/search?hl=en&q=...

These are mostly engine related strikes.

There are also other links to general information and when you go to U Tube you will find many other bird strike videos, including F-16s.  Some are from cockpit cameras, and you'll not only get crew reaction, one camera continues to record thru pilot's ejection and ground impact.  

The only good thing about air strikes damage to airframes is they occur at relatively slow speeds.  Our C-141 took a bird through the radome on a night final, at Travis.  The only initial indication was a horrendous thud, followed by the noise generated by lost aerodynamics of the nose.  We aborted landing and went into holding pattern to determine what the heck had happened.  We figured it was a bird but couldn't confirm it until we had landed.