Since the earliest days of manned flight, pilots have sought to safely share the skies with their avian counterparts—with mixed results. On September 7, 1905, less than two years after Orville Wright became the first man to make a controlled flight in a powered, heavier-than-air craft, he was the first to report a bird strike. That …
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