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Bird are able to bring down commercial airliners, and in the US there are 14,000 bird strikes per year reported to the FAA. Despite some modestly effective dev
by jessriedel 8y ago
Bird are able to bring down commercial airliners, and in the US there are 14,000 bird strikes per year reported to the FAA. Despite some modestly effective devices used to discourage birds from flying near airports, birds still regularly encroach on airport air space. Yet somehow, airports manage to keep operating.
The only way the hyper caution can be justified is by the chance that the drone operators would purposefully strike an aircraft.
- fipple 8y agoBut isn’t a pretty reasonable assumption that a drone flying around an airport in a furtive manner, in clear contravention of law, would try to purposefully strike an aircraft? Much more so than a bird, which would have nothing to gain and everything to lose?
- sterlind 8y agoBirds rarely carry explosives. Do these drones? No way to tell without bagging one. Big booms come in small packages; I think the caution is warranted. It just shouldn't take so long. How about this: signal triangulation stations at each large airport and a directional signal jammer? What do you need to safely down a drone in a highly-controlled environment?
- M2Ys4U 8y agoEven if it's not carrying explosives it probably has a LiPo battery on board which wouldn't be a nice thing to run through a jet engine...