Chemical repellent activated by SMS to disperse birds on the runway

The highly modern Singapore Air Force is plagued by migratory egrets that appear between September and November, causing fighter planes to crash if sucked into the jet engines, reports Spacewar.com.

The Air Force base has come up with several solutions to this problem; importing aggressive hawks from Germany to help scare the birds off, using flares, using digitally recorded bird distress calls or, and of interest to this column, using a chemical repellant dispenser activated by SMS text messages from the control tower whenever unwelcome avian guests are spotted on the runway.

emily | 10:30 AM | SMS and Wildlife |
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