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Friday, February 21, 2014

$500K radar system gives Offutt pilots better data in effort to avoid dangerous bird strikes

MERLIN SS200mLt. Col. Jeff O'Grady won't ever forget the time he kissed a black bird with his Air Force jet.

Flying an RC-135 near Offutt Air Force Base in 2002, O'Grady flinched as the crow smacked into his windshield.

“The bird's coming at the window,” said O'Grady, who is now chief of safety for the Offutt-based 55th Wing. “You duck because you're human, even though there's two panes of glass. Then, there's a bird stuck under the windshield wiper.”

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