Bird Vs Drone

Unmanned drones are making quite a name for themselves. They started out rather unsteady in design and progressed to becoming superb delivery vehicles. Their usage is just going to increase in the future. So it makes sense that airlines are worried about what impact with these drones would do to their air crafts. Bird hits have already known to be devastating to the engines.

Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE) set up a team of researchers to study the difference between a bird hit and a drone hit for an aircraft. The weight of both the bird and the drone being the same, it was found by the science project that the drone was likely to do considerably more damage to the aircraft structure than the drone. Considering that the drones are made of tougher material than the soft masses of tissues and feather that constitute a bird, this finding is hardly surprising.

What is scary is that nearly 100 sightings of drones near air crafts have been seen in a month. The potential for a disaster is looming large unless some regulation is brought into immediate effect. Something that the researchers of the project have been urging the authorities to lay out and implement.