[Scan-DC] Drones and airport stoppages

[Greg Danes]

I am wondering aloud about the two recent news reports about all this at
Gatwick airport in the UK and here at Newark in NJ. When you control one of
these things they work on some sort of radio frequency I suppose. Also to
my mind my ex once bought me a toy helicopter thingy. BTW the first time I
tried to fly the damn thing it went straight up about 200 feet over my
condo and I never found it again. Luckily I think she paid like 25.00 at
CVS or something.

So even with the cost factors and such are not these things in the real
world only at best for hobbyists maybe 2 feet long? I know it would be hard
for a pilot to see a hovering 2 foot bird in the sky next to an airport,
yet maybe it WOULD sort of stand out.

So yes a two foot object sucked into a plane engine could be bad news, got
it. But why would anyone fly the things next to an airport anyway? Great
pics and video of planes taking off from 200 feet? rather lame.


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