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Four pounds of hardware ingested by a jet engine is going to do a shitload of damage.
by jacquesm 9mo ago
Four pounds of hardware ingested by a jet engine is going to do a shitload of damage.
- HNisCIS 9mo agoThese pico balloons weigh grams.
- jacquesm 9mo agoParent to mine mentioned 4 pounds.
- m4rtink 9mo agoYeah, I think ours was less than 10 grams. As rules go, IIRC at least here in the Czech Republic anything below 100 g is unregulated, you just need to have a licensed amateur radio operator, so that the probe can broadcast in the 20 meter WSPR band under his callsign.
- 1024core 9mo agoExactly. Given that most birds weigh less than 4 pounds and bird strikes can take an engine out completely. Plus, if @jacquesm says it, it must be true. ;-)
- daemonologist 9mo agoI agree, but apparently that's the rule.