It’s an airport. Big, concrete. and not very hospitable to any sort of fauna. Are you really going to encourage wasps to nest in the jetways instead?
I meant something more like this out in the grassy areas that make up like half of airports:
But yeah, probably a stupid idea
the paper ends with this:
In doing so, P . nasidens poses a significant risk to aviation safety [5], and further work is warranted to determine the prospects for its control or, preferably, eradication.
On behalf of the murder hornets, I’d like to point out the injustice of the fact that wasps can sabotage civil aviation and remain just ‘wasps’ rather than ‘terror wasps’; but dismember a few honey bees and maybe sting a few people and it’s “murder hornets”.
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As crucial as the pitot tube is to air navigation, wouldn’t it make sense to design one that can retract? If the data seems fishy, deploy a spare, that’s been protected from ice and wasps and whatnot. Yes, more to go wrong. Redundancy is still better.
Many do have multiples.
Interestingly the Apollo rockets had a similar problem with the Launch Escape System Q-ball, kinda like a pitot. They had an elaborate method for removing the Q-ball cover right before launch
obligs:
Wasps (the insects, not the people) threaten more than airplane safety. I’ve been swarmed by wasps but not by bees. One morning maybe 100 wasps invaded my scalp. I’ve since excused my irrational behaviors because I’m ADDLED BY VENOM – that, and brain damage as a toddler. What is your excuse?
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