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The forwardly open intake end of a jet engine, powering an aircraft, is screened against birds and other airborne objects by a conical cage formed from an array of metal rods converging on the engine axis, the rods being held together at the vertex of the cone by a solid tip and in an intermediate plane as well as at the cone base by a pair of metal rings. In flight, they are free to vibrate so as to shake off adhering ice particles. De-icing can be further promoted by feeding back exhaust gases from the rear of the engine to the interior of the cage through an external pipe.
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