A method comprises continuously discharging a persistent vapor of bird repellant from a non-propulsion apparatus on a flying aircraft into an elevated airspace to substantially cover a runway flight path corridor at a commercial airport to prevent birds from striking subsequent aircraft in the corri
A method comprises continuously discharging a persistent vapor of bird repellant from a non-propulsion apparatus on a flying aircraft into an elevated airspace to substantially cover a runway flight path corridor at a commercial airport to prevent birds from striking subsequent aircraft in the corridor. The discharging automatically begins from a runway at the airport and automatically ends when the corridor is substantially covered.
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1. An aircraft comprising: an aircraft body; anda non-propulsion apparatus carried by the aircraft body, the apparatus including a tank, a vaporizing nozzle, and a means for automatically causing bird repellant in the tank to be delivered to the nozzle and continuously discharged through the nozzle
1. An aircraft comprising: an aircraft body; anda non-propulsion apparatus carried by the aircraft body, the apparatus including a tank, a vaporizing nozzle, and a means for automatically causing bird repellant in the tank to be delivered to the nozzle and continuously discharged through the nozzle as the aircraft takes off from a runway and flies to an elevation substantially above the runway, wherein the discharging begins automatically upon takeoff from the runway and automatically stops at the elevation of about 3000 feet above the runway. 2. The aircraft of claim 1, wherein said vaporizing nozzle is configured to deliver a persistent vapor of bird repellant having a particle size of 30 microns or less. 3. The aircraft of claim 1, wherein said tank is filled with a liquid bird repellant including methyl anthranilate. 4. The aircraft of claim 1, wherein the aircraft body includes an empennage; wherein the means includes a pump for delivering the bird repellant from the tank to the vaporizing nozzle; and wherein said tank and said pump are mounted within said empennage as a self-contained unit. 5. The aircraft of claim 4, wherein said apparatus further includes a removable base panel upon which the tank and the pump are mounted. 6. The aircraft of claim 1 wherein the means causes a vapor of the bird repellant to be discharged into a runway flight path corridor adjacent the runway. 7. The aircraft of claim 1 wherein the means includes a pump, a weight-on-wheels sensor, and a digital processor programmed with instructions that, when executed, respond to a signal from the weight-on-wheels sensor by controlling operation of the pump to deliver the bird repellant in the tank to the nozzle. 8. The aircraft of claim 1, wherein the means includes a pump and a digital processor programmed with instructions that, when executed, cause the pump to operate according to live aircraft data. 9. A method comprising continuously discharging a persistent vapor of bird repellant from a non-propulsion apparatus on a flying aircraft into an elevated airspace to substantially cover a runway flight path corridor at a commercial airport to prevent birds from striking subsequent aircraft in the corridor, wherein the discharging automatically begins at takeoff from a runway at the airport and automatically ends when the corridor is substantially covered. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the vapor of bird repellant is continuously discharged to an elevation of substantially 3000 feet above the runway. 11. The method of claim 9, wherein the vapor of bird repellant is discharged by the non-propulsion apparatus aboard an unmanned aircraft. 12. The method of claim 9, wherein the vapor of bird repellant is discharged by the non-propulsion apparatus aboard a commercial aircraft. 13. A non-propulsion apparatus configured to be carried upon an aircraft, said apparatus comprising a tank, a pump, a vaporizing nozzle, a digital processor programmed with instructions that, when executed, cause the pump to automatically and continuously deliver bird repellant from the tank to the nozzle and into a runway flight path corridor, and a weight-on-wheels sensor for generating a control signal indicative of takeoff, wherein the digital processor causes the pump to automatically start delivering the bird repellant in response to the control signal. 14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the digital processor is programmed with additional instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive live aircraft data and perform at least one of modifying discharge rates, altering altitude of discharge, and aborting a planned discharge. 15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the nozzle includes an orifice having a variable size; and wherein the processor is programmed with additional instructions that, when executed, causes the processor to control the nozzle to vary particle size of the discharged bird repellant. 16. The apparatus of claim 13, further comprising a removable base panel, wherein the pump and the tank are mounted to the base panel as a self-contained unit.
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