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Bird strikes pose a real threat to air safety
Professor Herricks is a bird-watcher, but not in the way you might expect. NEW YORK, January 15, 2009 – A US Airways pilot ditched his disabled jetliner into the frigid Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after a collision with a flock of birds apparently knocked out both engines, but rescuers pulled all 155 people on board into boats as the plane sank, authorities say....(excerpted from an Associated Press story ) . For much of the past decade, Professor Edwin Herricks has laid the foundation for a tool that may address one of the oldest problems facing aviation today,...
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