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Article: DeTect Hosts Aviation Week Birdstrike Roundtable at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
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- Journal of Transportation
- Article date:
- November 14, 2009
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DeTect, Inc. will host the Aviation Week Birdstrike Roundtable today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. This meeting assembles end users of Bird Radar and Foreign Object Detection (FOD) systems from around the world including airlines, airports, pilots and controllers for small focus group meetings to discuss how these technologies can be integrated into commercial airport operations to improve aviation safety.
"Bird radars have been successfully used by the military and NASA for tactical aircraft-bird strike avoidance since 2003 under operational procedures that have proven effective at reducing strike rates," said Gary Andrews, DeTect's CEO. ...