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The FAA might take objection too. Some places won't let you have lasers within a certain range of an airport. Also, what happens if the mosquito turret mistakes
by x86ARMsRace 6y ago
The FAA might take objection too. Some places won't let you have lasers within a certain range of an airport. Also, what happens if the mosquito turret mistakes a 747 for a mosquito? Sounds like an effective way to blind pilots. Cool idea though, might be fun indoors if your house is fireproofed.
- qwerty456127 6y ago> Sounds like an effective way to blind pilots. Don't pilots have protective windows?
- jacquesm 6y agoNo, they don't, and in helicopters they even have windows in the floor.
- numpad0 6y agoProtected against weather and sunlights but not against dumb kids with eBay lasers yet
- qwerty456127 6y agoThen why don't terrorists and angry people use this?
- numpad0 6y agoBecause there had never been actual deaths to it?
- PeterisP 6y agoIt has caused career-ending eye damage though - e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/23/ba-pilots-eye-damaged-by-military-laser-shone-into-cockpit-at-heathrow https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/23/ba-pilots-eye-...
- bigiain 6y agoAngry/stupid people do. What they don't seem to work out is that they're drawing a super clear line in the sky directly back to themselves, and police in choppers have colleagues on the ground who are very happy to show up and arrest the guy with the laser... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCCLbcC25Rs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCCLbcC25Rs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaOhD2r-Y8c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaOhD2r-Y8c
- Freestyler_3 6y agoI thought this was for indoors, outdoors mosquito is food for other animals. Also gotta be a sick 747 flying upside down.
- dotancohen 6y agoThe Boeing 707 famously did a barrel roll on its first public flight.
- DevoidSimo 6y agoThe problem with blinding pilots is actually reflections off clouds, which is not really intuitive.
- Freestyler_3 6y agooh, indeed it is not. Good thing I never put lasers outdoors.
- BurningFrog 6y agoThe FAA has no power in Africa.