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Development Of A Bird-Avoidance Model For Naval Air Facility El Centro, California, Edward J. Zakrajsek
Development Of A Bird-Avoidance Model For Naval Air Facility El Centro, California, Edward J. Zakrajsek
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Bird strikes (collisions between birds and aircraft) pose a significant threat to aviation safety. For example, Naval Air Facility El Centro, California, lost an F-18 jet to a bird strike in October 1995. To help combat the bird-strike threat at Naval Air Facility El Centro, I developed a bird-avoidance model as a risk-management tool for the installation. It can be used to schedule flights at NAF El Centro and its two associated practice-bombing ranges during times of low-bird activity. I calculated bird-strike risks and published them in web-page format on both the installation's server and the USGS/Utah State University, College …