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Hillmorton radio masts

Guy wires pose a fatal threat to birds, who often circle the tower lights at night.

The phenomenaEdit

A bird strike is when a flying bird hits an aircraft causing important damage to it's structure. This phenomenon is obviously more common to see during high speed flying, but in can also happen in the ground when a bird is suctioned by an engine, especially with a jet engine.

Cars, speed boats, jet skis and cars have been hit at time as well. Birds also have on occasion flown in to trees, windows, tower blocks radio masts, wind turbes and powerlines.

Also seeEdit

  1. Disasters
  2. Aircraft
  3. Aircraft Engines

SourcesEdit

  1. http://aircraft.wikia.com/wiki/Bird_strike
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20070323085010/http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-07-06/news_onthestreet.php
  4. http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=f6ce5d0a02148410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD
  5. http://m.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/S4204-2011
  6. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr1643/text
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20110927184229/http://www.birdsandbuildings.org/docs/ChicagoBirdSafeDesignGuide.pdf
  8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird-skyscraper_collisions
  9. https://web.archive.org/web/20070323085010/http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-07-06/news_onthestreet.php
  10. http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=f6ce5d0a02148410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD
  11. http://m.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/S4204-2011
  12. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr1643/text
  13. https://web.archive.org/web/20110927184229/http://www.birdsandbuildings.org/docs/ChicagoBirdSafeDesignGuide.pdf
  14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird-skyscraper_collisions
  15. http://www.towerkill.com/science/mech.html
  16. http://www.tc.faa.gov/its/worldpac/techrpt/tctn12-9.pdf
  17. http://www.npr.org/2012/06/13/154959104/blinded-by-the-light-birds-crash-into-radio-towers
  18. http://www.towerkill.com/science/litt.html
  19. http://www.flap.org/
  20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike
  21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towerkill
  22. https://www.scribd.com/document/115029171/Low-Frequency-Antennas-Chapter-19-by-C-A-Martin-and-Phillip-S-Carter-RCA-Laboratories
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