Around 360,000 flights land and take off from Singapore's Changi airport each year.
Yet hardly anyone ever thinks about what it takes to keep the runways clean.
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Birds for one, pose a huge problem to most airplanes.
A bird getting sucked into an engine or striking a windscreen could cause a possibly fatal accident — and has in the past forced pilots to make emergency landings or crashes.
In Singapore, the solution lies in the Airside Safety Rover — a vehicle fitted with a long range acoustic device (LRAD), a loudspeaker of sorts that is designed to broadcast sounds to scare away the birds. Read more...
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