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Prologue
These are notable wolf-related things. I’ve been picking out my favorites, in the following collection. I’m traveling at this point. Blogging part-time, for now, and I’ll try to finish writing that novel one day that will make millions. Yeah, right. Using my personal computer will be downgraded to that of a hobby. I love what they’re doing with lasers and cameras these days. Still working on that next ‘big hit’ that everyone will enjoy. Until that day comes, I’ll continue playing songs as a blip.fm dj. [lolz]
8 months agoAircraft and Wolves
[Opinion-Editorial] Explain last Tweet: Okay I will, FTW, means [F]or [T]he [W]in. It’s a three-letter acronym. All too often aircraft are used to hunt animals. Either on purpose or on accident. The results are identical, and sometimes tragic. Of course, as an animal gets accustomed to hearing certain sounds, or sees the same results from our behaviors, it gets increasingly trusting of the accustomed although foreign object. Or avoids it if it learns to associate the experience negatively. For example, after being hunted by aircraft, wolves have started to react differently when they hear aircraft. At one point in time, it was illegal to fire a weapon from a plane, so wolves would associate gunfire and aircraft sounds with the gut-piles left behind by successful hunting expeditions. These sounds would actually attract wolves who believed there would be an easy meal waiting near the source of these sounds. After being gunned down from aircraft, the wolves quickly learned how to evade and escape being shot at and some will hide rather than run when hearing aircraft or gunfire.
This phenomena is typically associated in the memory of the creatures, rather that with it’s natural instincts. The two components of experience are different. Over the generations, these wild animals never pass this new information along to their young. Especially with the cycles of birds, since they learn how to fly without a honeymoon or grace period being hatched straight from the egg. Hence, repeated intersections of clumsy behaviors unmodified by our actions occur without due training, especially in flight. Case in point:
CNN Story:
Aircraft lands safely in Hudson
The birds were like lemmings playing follow the leader, and wandered into controlled airspace. There was no one aloft to warn them or guide them from danger due to the amount of traffic the area typically has to deal with on any given day. In this encounter, the birds got inducted, or sucked into the turbofan engines causing severe engine damage, loss of forward thrust, power which provides airspeed, the life-blood for this kind of flight, turning a huge commercial jet aircraft into a glider. Fortunately the person flying the aircraft was a seasoned veteran, and an excellent pilot. He saved his entire crew and every soul aboard the aircraft, not to mention what would have happened had he pushed a bad situation into a worse one by trying to go for a normal runway and risk it all on a “save the aircraft” style landing he intuitively knew he couldn’t pull off with no power. This pilot acted out of the wisdom of experience, rather than ‘instinct’. Thinking through the situation, he quickly made the right choice. He understood the limitations of the aircraft, knew the physics of flight and managed to avoid landing his ‘Cactus’ in the middle of a metropolis. Aircraft are complex systems, which many shortcomings, unscheduled or emergency landings are a fact of life. Of course, this is a common experience statistically when you factor in the possibility of a ‘bird-strike’. This is what it looks like with much smaller aircraft:
I’m in the middle of casually researching a couple of ideas, things that prevent birds flying formation from entering into a turbine engine inadvertently. Not to mention, studying an alteration of aircraft protocols, and flight traffic control. I’ve often wondered why the FAA doesn’t mandate a new design for jet engines to help the new ideas along. Especially dealing with the designs for the geometry on the leading edges of the enclosure. Bird’s are known to have a difficult time hearing while aloft, and it would seem this may be part of the problem. I’ve wondered if there is some way of discouraging their flight path by using a device similar to a dog-whistle. I know that this problem will not go away if ignored. In my opinion, a new design for the turbine housing that incorporates some sort of instantaneously deployed shield, or barrier: a device would be akin to an aperature in a camera operating it’s lens maybe incorporated into a rigid pylon extending from center of the spinning turbine center with an airbag on the end where both can detect collision with birds instantaneously. At any rate, I’d hate to see another tagged bird obliterated by a jet engine turned vaccum cleaner. I know that modifications to a turbine is a costly undertaking to say the least. One problem is retrofitting various designs. One problem is how to make it lightweight, and avoid the new mechanical solution from being sucked into the works if it fails.
I realize that aircraft design is very complicated. I am no expert. To say that something should be done differently is an understatement. This problem is recursive. New designs must be explored. Turbine design needs to meet the goals of future generations. It took several evolutions of each to become perfected. Now they are in successful and common use today in other fields of application, such as the generation of electrical power. Of course there are already many organizations currently working the problem and as yet no long-term commercial application has proven completely successful:
Additional References:
B.A.S.H.
Birdstrike Organization
USAF Bird Avoidance Model
Turbines are akin to blenders:
[Sorry, had to slip a bit of blender technology in there. I like juice like everyone else.]
Michael Lanyard
An interesting look at one “true crime” detective, with stories about a reformed gentleman who was once a notorious thief. I find detective novels particularly entertaining, especially older authors such as Dashiell Hammett. This particular citation, includes iconography of a “lone wolf” as made in history by popular culture. Includes references to additional readings. 
