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last week saw a video taken from plane taking off, the end of the wing hit a drone (actually quite high) and got damaged badly (no access to youtube now at work
by saiya-jin 11y ago
last week saw a video taken from plane taking off, the end of the wing hit a drone (actually quite high) and got damaged badly (no access to youtube now at work, but it should be easy to find). Damage to wing can easily get to few tens of thousands of USD, if not more. Be it engine, the aircraft would be having much bigger issues, since after takeoff, it needs a lot of thrust to gain altitude.
as usually, the whole drone community is going to suffer because of few arrogant d*ckheads. initially i was pro-drone, but after couple of similar videos showing how some owners of drones behave (privacy is unknown term for quite a few), I don't have that much sympathy anymore.
Regulate, allow in some areas but under strict rules, punish harshly those who ignore rules. When one wields ability to potentially kill few hundred people and do 200 mil USD damage (or much more, imagine falling plane hitting some urban area), personal sympathies are irrelevant.
- mikeash 11y agoThat video is a fake, done by a special effects guy as a portfolio piece.
- jmcqk6 11y agoAnother problem, and the reason drones are banned in National Parks, is crashing in inaccessible places. http://time.com/3433295/yellowstone-drone-crash/ http://time.com/3433295/yellowstone-drone-crash/ I get the desire to take cool pictures, and drones open up the ability to do things with video and photography that in the past was only accessible to people paying lots of money. But it's also causing problems that need to be solved.