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Title: MAVs at airports soon Post by: iamahuman on September 04, 2010, 02:11:17 PM Read this in the newspaper (Deccan Herald) in the morning.Authorities are planning to use MAVs to avoid bird hits around airports.These miniature air vehicles are radio controlled.Does anyone know anything more about these planes?(The paper does not elaborate on the planes.)
Title: Re: MAVs at airports soon Post by: anwar on September 04, 2010, 04:38:05 PM Interesting...
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/93848/preventing-avian-aviation-collisions.html Ashta bhai may run into the testing of these at Hoskote one of these days :) Title: Re: MAVs at airports soon Post by: iamahuman on September 04, 2010, 05:35:27 PM yeah.Expecting ashta sir to report on these.
Title: Re: MAVs at airports soon Post by: Gary Mortimer on September 17, 2010, 03:19:48 AM I wonder if they will use an EPP Eagle
(http://static.rcgroups.com/forums/attachments/2/4/4/9/7/t1516992-193-thumb-new1s.jpg?d=1191938524) I always thought that would make a great platform for such things Title: Re: MAVs at airports soon Post by: anwar on September 17, 2010, 09:17:50 AM You may have seen our master builder Ashta's thread on the same :
http://www.rcindia.org/electric-planes/fff-eagle-56-inch-wing-span-scratch-build/ Seeing it in person was very VERY impressive :thumbsup: Title: Re: MAVs at airports soon Post by: sushil_anand on September 17, 2010, 12:34:58 PM At Mahalakshmi, I have found the larger birds actually attacking gliders and small, electric planes.
So, they would be better off NOT using aircraft that "would resemble winged vertebrates". A noisy nitro plane (without muffler?) would be better. But I don't think it would really work. All that would happen would be the birds moving away a bit. Title: Re: MAVs at airports soon Post by: Gary Mortimer on September 17, 2010, 12:43:51 PM Well I was at a demonstration of one of these
(http://www.bbsr.co.uk/images/blackstart1.jpg) They had a speaker onboard it and could make all sorts of siren noises that could be heard quite a way away. So perhaps flying with Eagle cries, or better still distress calls from others birds it could work. Its sort of what the BCU, bird control unit guys did when I was in the RAF, but from speakers mounted on landrovers, I think that was called SAPPHO they also fired shots that exploded amongst the birds and fired flares at them. At one airfield I was based we were right on an estuary and every evening when the birds came home in enormous numbers they would have to stop flying. So it is a problem. Title: Re: MAVs at airports soon Post by: iamahuman on September 17, 2010, 04:24:17 PM Oh yeah.Forgot to mention it.It needs to be implemented really fast.Have any rc fliers had 'bird hits'?
Title: Re: MAVs at airports soon Post by: sushil_anand on September 17, 2010, 05:55:13 PM Yes. Several at Mahalakshmi.
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