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Delta Flight Forced to Make Emergency Landing After Hitting Birds

A Boston-bound Delta Airlines flight had a brief, but frightening, setback Saturday night when it had to make an emergency ...

Bird strike forces Delta flight to make emergency landing in Miami

The Delta Air Lines flight was heading from Miami International Airport to Boston Logan International Airport when the ...

Delta flight makes emergency landing in Miami after bird strike

A Delta Air Lines flight made an emergency landing in Miami on Saturday, after a reported bird strike, officials said. No one ...
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Boston-bound Delta flight returns to MIA after bird strikes engine shortly after takeoff

A strike in the sky forced a Delta Air Lines plane to make an emergency landing at Miami International<a ...
Newsweek

Robot Bird Can Walk, Hop and Jump for Take-Off

A robot with bird-like legs that can walk, hop, leap and jump for take-off into flight has been designed in Switzerland in an engineering breakthrough that could enable aircraft to operate in ...
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Florida-bound flight forced to turn back after bird strike, engine fire

A flight to Florida from Cuba was forced to turn back Sunday after it struck birds that caused an engine to catch fire and filled the cabin with smoke, a news report said.Southwest Airlines flight ...
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Fly like a bird: UTEP engineers seek to translate the mysteries of bird flight into aircraft

John Bird, Ph.D., and Afroza Shirin, Ph.D., stand with a model aircraft used in their research on soaring. With a new grant ...
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Engineers Study Bird Flight

Christina Harvey, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, uses a combination of wind tunnel studies and modeling of inertial forces to understand how birds ...