7/22/2023 0 Comments Big bird sketch door![]() Part 2: Our wedding party is much older now, graying and visibly worn. David next finds a doughnut in his pocket, but Bob says it has to be smaller still. Bob adds an additional caveat: it has to be much smaller than that. Bob clarifies that it also has to have a hole in it, so David pulls out an inflated bicycle tube. After some searching, David produces a pizza: it's round and it was in his pocket. David looks confused, so Bob tells him it's the round thing in his pocket. After the couple says "I do", the minister instructs the groom to place the ring on the bride's finger. Part 1: Bob presides over David and Maria's wedding. "All you have to say is UP, UP and away." With a whoosh, Bob is lifted off the ground with Tom looking up after him. Bob, no longer able to stay out of sight as the announcer, appears on screen and spells it out for Tom. Tom tries to sound it out, but goes with "Around, around and away!" before running in circles and getting himself dizzy. Bob, still unseen, shows "up" on the screen for the last time. He goes over his previous mistakes and worries he'll never fly again if he can't think of the word. Part 3: Tom still can't remember the word. Back in frame, he says he doesn't think that was the word either. Instead, he tries "Across, across and away!" and zooms to the side out of frame where he crashes. "Up" flashes on the screen again, but doesn't help him. Part 2: Tom is still trying to think of the word he's missing. Tom recognizes the word, but can't remember what it says, so he'll "just have to try something else." He takes a leap, declares "Down, down and away!", and crashes to the ground. What is that word?" In voiceover, Bob announces he'll help him remember by displaying the word "UP" on screen. ![]() except he can't remember what to say before taking off: "Something, something and away. Port Authority officials issued a statement yesterday saying they were working to reduce bird strikes.Part 1: Tom plays the part of a super-hero ready to to fly off and do justice. While deer and other four-legged animals are a big problem at airports elsewhere in the country, only birds caused aircraft substantial damage since 2000 at New York’s airports. Six serious Canada goose-hits were reported in the first 11 months of 2008, compared with 11 in all of 2007 and 12 in 2006. The number of substantial hits by Canada geese reported nationally varies a lot from year to year. Canada geese were second, with 98 incidents. Nationally, the most dangerous airport animal was the white-tailed deer, responsible for 133 incidents from 2000 to 2008 in which aircraft were substantially damaged. Since 1990, nine people have died when planes collided with birds or deer. The landfills are now closed, but the birds stayed around.īird-hits at the nation’s busiest airports have more than doubled since 2000, the data show. Garber says the city’s decision years ago to build three trash landfills near the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge led to an increase in the number of herring gulls near Kennedy. Herring gulls are blamed for badly damaging 10 planes at local airports since 2000, one more than the nine serious hits blamed on Canada geese. The Canada goose-hits include six at Teterboro, which serves corporate jets. Just eight of those incidents substantially damaged planes.Ĭanada geese - blamed in the felling of US Airways Flight 1549, which ditched in the Hudson River in January - were responsible for 11 hits at local airports in 2008, none considered serious. In the first 11 months of 2008, 402 wildlife hits were reported at Kennedy, La Guardia, Newark and Teterboro. Most bird strikes do not seriously damage airplanes. “You can have 30 major incidents just so many times before one of them is catastrophic,” he said. The rise in dangerous bird-hits around New York worries Steve Garber, a wildlife biologist who for several years in the 1990s ran Kennedy Airport’s wildlife management program. Farms next door to the Sacramento airport are a big bird draw. Sacramento’s airport finished in second place after Kennedy, with 28 dangerous wildlife hits. Kennedy has done far worse with birds than Newark and La Guardia, which have each had nine substantial hits since 2000, and Teterboro, which had eight. ![]() Planes at Kennedy suffered “substantial” damage from birds 30 times from January 2000 to November 2008, according to the FAA’s wildlife-strike database.Īnd Kennedy’s problems have gotten worse in the last few years, with the number of substantial hits rising from two or three a year from 2000 to 2004 to five hits in 2005, and four every year afterward. Kennedy Airport, right next to a bird and wildlife refuge, is the nation’s most dangerous airport when it comes to bird and wildlife strikes, government data released yesterday show.
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