Sentences with phrase «around airfields»

The birds don't like it and leave the area around the airfields, where there is potential for tremendous damage and loss of life.»

Introducing a noise net around airfields that emits sound levels equivalent to those of a conversation in a busy restaurant could prevent collisions between birds and aircraft, saving passenger lives and billions in damages, new research has found.

A study published in Ecological Applications led by Professor John Swaddle, visiting Research Associate at the University of Exeter, found that filling a controlled area with acoustic noise around an airfield, where the majority of collisions tend to take place, can reduce the number of birds in the area by 80 per cent.

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Yet even after Trump was applauded by many, including McCain, for ordering strikes on a Syrian airfield last year in response to another poison attack, this time around there could be more calls for congressional involvement in any response.

Allies of al - Assad's regime rallied around the Syrian strongman and pledged to respond to US «aggression» after the Trump administration bombed a military airfield in retaliation for a poisonous gas attack.

State military officials say the MQ - 9 Reaper had taken off from Wheeler Sack Army Airfield at Fort Drum and was operating in approved airspace over the eastern side of the lake when it was lost around 1 p.m. Tuesday.

And on this hot, sunny afternoon it's Priaulx's job to fling the car — and us — around a former airfield in Germany to demonstrate the keen reflexes and taut handling ability of a car that BMW promises will come in around 3300 pounds.

As we watched real race cars battle it out around the vintage airfield in Florida, we passed around and talked about the toy versions.

Because Tesla was keen for us to try a secondhand model and as a fledgling player it doesn't have airfields of unsold stock lying around.

She arrived at Southwest Aviation airfield in Las Cruces around 5:30 a.m. ready to help, with much needed supplies in hand.

The airfield is only 5 minutes drive from town, and generally your trip will take around 2 - 3 hours total.

There are some superb hiking and biking trails around Vrsar, along with tennis, golf and even a small airfield that offers panoramic flights plus skydiving!

Set around the landscapes of southern Greece and an abandoned airfield near Athens, the three - channel installation meditates on Greek history and its recent financial crisis.

- Verity Jones As these are both airfields the differences are in the bigger area around the sensors; I looked at a set of roof weather stations a while back with differences in the surfaces: http://diggingintheclay.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/thermal-absorption-a-black-and-white-and-green-issue/ This was only a quick, crude examination, but readily shows up the issues.

Siemens Project Manager (PM3) and ISO 9000 Quality Auditor with background in design development installation and project leadership of networked Airfield Lighting Control Systems (ALCS) installed in airports around the world.