Re: Bird Strike Detector for Jets??

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:59:11 -0800, D from BC <myrealaddress@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Bird sucked into engine during take off..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNpB-8_BSo&feature=related
News report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9gZ47ir78&feature=related

(Sweep up on runway 4!)

If I were a pilot I'd like to have a little red light (or window pop
up for glass cockpit) if an object got sucked into an engine.

Call it a bird strike light..

Here's how I imagine it:

Some lasers, some photo detectors. If the beam gets broken, something
was sucked into the engine..
(Hollywood burglar alarm style.)

But I think the idea crashes when there's rain, cloud, fog, snow or
ice crystals getting sucked in.
Also, there might be ice and dirt on the optics.
So optical probably sucks.


Why not just a deflector?

JF
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