 The flight line at Naval Station Rhoda lies along one of Europe's most active bird migration paths. The Bird Aircraft Animal Strike Hazard or BASH program have been conducting research all year long to find the best ways to keep our runway safe. The migrants are the ones we're worried about because when they come here they're not used to airports, they're not used to airplanes. August-September we formally began our experiments and conduct our experiments to see if the tube man actually works well as a bird deterrent. The work the tube man has done is we're putting him near some of these airfield equipment and that's really made a big difference with the raptors, the hawks. And what we found was using this 20-foot tube man that you see behind me, we had on average about a 67% reduction in the amount of wildlife was sold. No matter how wacky or wavy the solution safety is always first at Rhoda's Flight Line. Petty Officer Christina Brewer, Rhoda, Spain.