UDRI's researchers can perform a wide variety of bird strike and foreign object damage (FOD ... Subscale as well as full-scale test articles (including full-sized aircraft fuselages) can be ...

This method simulates the impact of bird strikes to test the resilience of aircraft engines. Despite these efforts, bird strikes continue to pose challenges. In the United States alone ...

"A bird strike on an engine might shut an engine down, but there's so many redundant systems there, it just doesn't make sense. We're not in the dark, but we know the runway is 9,200 feet.

The official cause of the crash remains unclear, but the new evidence gives further credence to earlier theories that the crash was caused, in part, by a bird strike — an increasingly common ...

What happens if a bird flies into a plane engine? The event is called a bird strike. Each year, bird strikes cost US airlines an estimated $1.2 billion. Only part of those costs are from actual ...

Experts are questioning the initial theory that a bird strike caused the deadly crash of Jeju Air flight 7C2216 in South Korea, which killed 179 people. The Boeing 737-800 was originally thought ...

Authorities have suggested that migratory bird strikes were the cause of last month's deadly plane crash in South Korea, ...