Mitigation of risk of bird strike in aviation
Bird strikes on aircraft pose a real safety threat for both military and civil aviation. Depending on specific circumstances such as the speed of the aircraft, the point of impact, the mass of the bird, the number of birds and the type of aircraft, bird strikes can result in devastating accidents.
FlySafe aims at improving and harmonising national bird-warning systems into an extended and standardized System of Systems (SoS) to improve flight safety in northwest Europe for military Air Force operations.
ASSIST - Assessed to prosper
Through the ASSIST study sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA), the development of a Telemedicine assessment methodology and a self-assessment tool have been carried out. ASSIST allows project managers to analyse the positive and negative impacts of their Telemedicine services way before they go live.
DESIRE II cooperation
Through their 2011 Administrative Arrangement and active policy and programmatic coordination, the European Defence Agency (EDA) and European Space Agency (ESA), have today agreed to pursue their cooperation in the domain of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) with the signature of the DeSIRE II Project Arrangement.
FlySafe helps start-up to new heights
Over the past four years, small Dutch company Robin Radar has been building a business out of FlySafe, ESA’s project for preventing bird strikes on aircraft, but has recently taken the technology down a new and unexpected path.
A major issue for aeronautics, bird strikes can cause delays, damage to machinery and in some cases human casualties. The consequences can be devastating and costly in more ways than one, which is why ESA’s Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP) programme developed FlySafe with the TNO Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research.