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Články z Yahoo!FAA says pilots can guide whooping cranes (AP)

9. 1 2012 (23:56)

This photo, taken in 2006, provided by operationmigration.org shows Operation Migration co-founder Joe Duff followed by juvenile Whooping cranes along a new migration route in Green County, Wis. Federal aviation officials will allow conservationists to lead 9 young whooping cranes to their winter home in Florida using an ultralight aircraft that the cranes apparently think is a mother bird. (AP Photo/operationmigration.org)AP - The pilots of the bird-like aircraft that has been leading nine young whooping cranes to their winter home in Florida have been granted a special exemption by federal regulators to continue their journey.