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A Pine Bluff company, Shield Aerodynamics LLC, is working on a deflector shield to protect jet engines from sucking up birds and drones. This simulation shows how the part would fit in front of the engine housing.
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Firm’s Goal: Keeping Birds Out Of Engines, Flyers Out of PerilLock Icon

“Sully” might have never become America’s best-known pilot, let alone a Tom Hanks movie hero, if the Airbus he flew in January 2009 had been equipped with an engine shield like the one a Pine Bluff company is developing now. read more >