Reply to: How Much?

[tay]

I have a bird scaring system.

Unfortunately it's my face

Not true!!!

It isnt just your face.

[Churchill]

Found this.

YouTube is your friend

It's a hell of a way to make chicken nuggets!

[Spacecadet]

Simply nail a hawk above each engine to scare away the approaching birds

might effect fuel economy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Hawk

[BoredBloke]

Simply nail a hawk above each engine to scare away the approaching birds

[Diver]

I have a bird scaring system.

Unfortunately it's my face

[TykeMerc]

Birdstrikes cock up propellers too incidentally, at the rotational and forward velocities of a prop or turbine a bird corpse is a rather hard object, the real issue is big birds or flocks of small ones.

The most effective approach is the one that airports routinely use which is to keep birds off the airfields so that they don't hit the aircraft on takeoff or landing. A common cause of flight/landing delay is scaring the birds away so they don't get ingested by the engines or slap into the wings, fin and fuselage.

[hyperD]

They should have a fast spinning thing with blades on in front of the engine inlet to chop up any incoming birds into small nuggets.

A turboprop perhaps?

[AtW]

been tried , didn't work. The system shot down friendly birds that approached the engine by mistake

Radar should track them and only shoot down if projected trajectory will result in a contact with airplane.

Now that kind of weapon would not need BAE to give bribes to sell it to foreign countries

[EternalOptimist]

Solution - put defensive laser system that would shoot down incoming obstacles without proper ID. Also can double up as anti-missile defence system. Sorted!

been tried , didn't work. The system shot down friendly birds that approached the engine by mistake

[DiscoStu]

Why don't they just put chicken-wire over the front of the engines??? - air goes in, chickens stay out.

contracting plan B - the aviation industry. I think I've got a future there...

You find me some chicken wire that'll withstand a 600mph impact and I'll buy as much as you can get

[AtW]

Solution - put defensive laser system that would shoot down incoming obstacles without proper ID. Also can double up as anti-missile defence system. Sorted!

[Stan.goodvibes]

Why don't they just put chicken-wire over the front of the engines??? - air goes in, chickens stay out.

contracting plan B - the aviation industry. I think I've got a future there...

[AtW]

it would be so heavy it couldn't fly or made of such wildly costly materials you couldn't afford to build one for commercial use.

Quite. Much cheaper to pay out from time to time insurance money to grieving relatives.

[TykeMerc]

Incinerated birdie with a seasoning of b0rked turbine blades and compressor bits is what you get out of the back.

Yes airframes are extensively tested with birdstrikes as are the engines, but as pointed out by FaQQer multiple strikes at takeoff or landing are troublesome for any aircraft. You should see a bird cannon they use in testing, bloody great big bit of kit and impressively noisy, takes all sorts of birdy calibres too from sparrows to damn great big seabirds/swans.
It's conceivably possible to make a strike immune airframe (not engine as they have to suck in loads of air by design) but it would be so heavy it couldn't fly or made of such wildly costly materials you couldn't afford to build one for commercial use.

[AtW]

Though there is that old old story about the frozen chicken....

What do you get on the other side of the turbo-fan engine, jerk chicken?