Timeline for Would it be viable to install a screen in front of jet intakes to prevent them from sucking in birds?
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| Jan 5, 2023 at 19:11 | comment | added | FreeMan | Screening the primary intake like this works on a jet fighter where the engine is buried in the wing/fuselage and the wing top can be used as an alternate air intake. For a "standard" configuration airliner, @NobodySpecial, with engines hung below and forward of the wings, what would be the the possible alternate air intake path? | |
| S Jun 15, 2018 at 13:16 | history | suggested | Rodrigo de Azevedo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S May 2, 2015 at 22:05 | history | suggested | Steve H | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 2, 2015 at 15:21 | comment | added | jwenting | @NobodySpecial that would depend on your routing. Flights are rerouted during bird migration season to avoid high altitude flocks for a reason. There are birds that high up, just not many. | |
| Apr 27, 2015 at 20:04 | comment | added | NobodySpecial | @KeithS - I meant for commercial airliners - bird strikes are only an issue at take-off/landing. Not that FOD screens are practical - but they don't have to work at mach 0.95 | |
| Apr 27, 2015 at 19:57 | comment | added | KeithS | Depends on your mission profile. The MiG-29 was designed primarily as an air-superiority fighter (originally the answer to the F-15, itself developed in direct response to the MiG-25), but was adapted to multirole use especially with the M variant; air-to-ground mission profiles even for deep strikes often involve relatively low-altitude cruising. | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 2:31 | comment | added | NobodySpecial | Do you encounter many birds at cruise ? I thought they were mainly a danger during take off and landing. You don't do much bird spotting at 40,000ft | |
| Apr 25, 2015 at 22:22 | comment | added | cpast | Nor are they designed to take a bird at cruise speed. | |
| Apr 24, 2015 at 7:41 | comment | added | jwenting | Mind that these were not intended for operation in flight. They are only operated during takeoff and landing, they restrict the airflow too much to be practical during regular operations (the performance of the aircraft suffers too much) or even when taking off at high weight. | |
| Apr 24, 2015 at 6:32 | history | edited | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 24, 2015 at 4:42 | history | answered | NobodySpecial | CC BY-SA 3.0 |