GULLS DANGER TO PLANES
London Airport Adopts Ruse
LONDON, January 12. London Airport is using a seagull on tape to clear gulls from the runways. Flocks of sea birds in cold weather are a constant menace to air operations* “They could cause a crash," an airport official said yesterday, according to the “News Chronicle."
‘‘They fly up as a plane is coming in, and recently about 100 of them were killed when a plane landed.” Now a gull’s warning cry on a tape recording borrowed from Amsterdam scatters them whenever planes are on the way.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28792, 13 January 1959, Page 9
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