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While drones colliding with aircraft is not a good thing, aren't most aircraft rated for bird strikes? It seems like most hobby level drones are approximately t
by kctess5 11y ago
While drones colliding with aircraft is not a good thing, aren't most aircraft rated for bird strikes? It seems like most hobby level drones are approximately the same size and weight.
- sschueller 11y agoBirds don't carry bombs (LiPo battery) with them. [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQheOtdCTjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQheOtdCTjs
- Dylan16807 11y agoIt's not really an explosion. The volatility just means the wreckage of the drone burns for a few seconds. That's not nearly as big a problem as the impact itself.
- tomswartz07 11y agoLiPos don't explode. They must be seriously mishandled for some time to even become relatively unsafe. Yes, the chemical reactions are pretty vigorous, but it takes quite a lot of special cases to get it to burn.
- Someone1234 11y ago"Bombs" is highly melodramatic. And at the speed that burned, it would be tens of miles behind an aircraft after the collision, and that's assuming that the impact didn't break up and spread the materials so thin that they weren't an effective hazard.
- rebootthesystem 11y agoBirds are made of something that a blender with a 100W motor (or less) can turn into mash in seconds. Drones are not.
- bigiain 11y agoThis is obviously one hell of a blender, but none of my quadcopters are anything like as tough as an iPhone: http://www.willitblend.com/videos/iphone-5s http://www.willitblend.com/videos/iphone-5s