Bird Brains
You thought the interactive diagram on how to walk on the ice was useful. Today's Globe has a diagram of a bird brain to help us understand recent events in aviation — namely the crash of US Airways Flight 1549.
Did you know that... "The most sensitive region of the birds’ hearing is in the 1 to 3 kilohertz range — also the peak acoustic noise output of a modern jet engine"? I bet you didn't. But now you do!
Wow your friends at your next dinner party or impress fellow passengers on your next international flight by explaining that "the intense jet noise may overstimulate the bird’s inner ear sensory receptors, interfering with a bird's ability to hear, and leaving them unaware they may be flying directly into an aircraft."
If you can't sleep during your flight to Paris, instead of counting sheeps, go for trashy version: engine-swallowed-birds.
You'll have 6 hours! Or... just watch the movies and the glamorous Air France stewards/esses. Bon voyage et amuse toi bien!
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Instead of wasting money to determine why birds would fly into a jet engine why not just eliminate the birds? An ounce of prevention saves tons of jet hardware.
Birds are messy; they make a lot of noise; they litter with droppings. They're cute until they start messing things up. When they interfere with human beings doing what human beings are wont to do then they really need to fly away.
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