Drones Sightings Keeping Airport Closed

[owejia]

Any one following this happening in England? Shut down for two days now ,over 100,000 passengers stranded. Will some one try that in the US? The Brits can't catch them.

[btq96r]

Saw this on the evening news last night.  Shutting down Gatwick is no small thing, even if it wasn't done at this time of year.  Crazy to think one or two people could cause all this economic disruption.

[peejman]

Kinda makes me smile at how totally unprepared they were and how inept they've been at solving it. It completely sucks for all the passengers who're stuck.  

[Chucktshoes]

 Expect airports to start deploying drone killers. Then you’ll have folks developing drone killer killers and the machines become self-aware and BOOM! you have Skynet and the war with the machines will be on . 

[bersaguy]

I think it is really kind of stupid flying drones near airports to begin with. Takes a real lowlife to not take the lives of hundreds of people as important knowing his toy could take down a Jumbo Jet kiling everyone on board. There is plenty of air space not near major airports to play with these toys. I think anyone caught flying one in commercial air space should face some very serious jail time and some hefty fines and yes, the loss of his toy............JMHO

[Garufa]

36 minutes ago, Chucktshoes said:

 Expect airports to start deploying drone killers. Then you’ll have folks developing drone killer killers and the machines become self-aware and BOOM! you have Skynet and the war with the machines will be on . 

Will the drone killers have laser beams?

Edited December 21, 2018 by Garufa

[Shorty]

Depending on drone size (small), they could just use the Peregrine falcons airports are already using to control bird populations at airports.

[peejman]

5 hours ago, Chucktshoes said:

 Expect airports to start deploying drone killers. Then you’ll have folks developing drone killer killers and the machines become self-aware and BOOM! you have Skynet and the war with the machines will be on . 

Sounds like an afternoon's entertainment. 

5 hours ago, bersaguy said:

I think it is really kind of stupid flying drones near airports to begin with. Takes a real lowlife to not take the lives of hundreds of people as important knowing his toy could take down a Jumbo Jet kiling everyone on board. There is plenty of air space not near major airports to play with these toys. I think anyone caught flying one in commercial air space should face some very serious jail time and some hefty fines and yes, the loss of his toy............JMHO

These people aren't playing, they're absolutely doing it intentionally.  

The fun part is that it would take a really, really big quadrotor to do any sort of significant damage to an airliner. But even a small one with a little C4 for payload would be really bad news, which is why they shut the airport down. 

[DaveTN]

Shoot them down. problem solved.

 

[Chucktshoes]

[bersaguy]

13 hours ago, peejman said:

Sounds like an afternoon's entertainment. 

These people aren't playing, they're absolutely doing it intentionally.  

The fun part is that it would take a really, really big quadrotor to do any sort of significant damage to an airliner. But even a small one with a little C4 for payload would be really bad news, which is why they shut the airport down. 

Really!!! It took a few geese to put a passenger jet in the Potomac a few years back. Another time a flock of black birds took one down but was able to land safely with 2 or the four engines functioning. Let a Boeing 747 suck a 4 prop toy into one of it's engines and see what damages it can do and if the plane does not crash it wil have to land quickly.  Won't need no C-4 just turbine destroyed.

Edited December 22, 2018 by bersaguy

[peejman]

7 hours ago, DaveTN said:

Shoot them down. problem solved.

 

Apparently they've been trying, unsuccessfully. It's a small and fast moving target that's airborne in a populated area. Doesn't get much harder than that. 

 

4 hours ago, bersaguy said:

Really!!! It took a few geese to put a passenger jet in the Potomac a few years back. Another time a flock of black birds took one down but was able to land safely with 2 or the four engines functioning. Let a Boeing 747 suck a 4 prop toy into one of it's engines and see what damages it can do and if the plane does not crash it wil have to land quickly.  Won't need no C-4 just turbine destroyed.

I work on jet engines and have seen the results of several bird strikes. Sully's airplane got more than a couple geese, each engine sucked up probably half a dozen birds. The birds don't do catastrophic damage to the engine. The engine can chew up a single bird pretty easily.  Multiple big birds just clog up the inlet. No air in, no thrust out. 

Those giant fan blades spinning at several thousand rpm will chop up a plastic drone quite readily.  As you're aware, any commercial multi-engine aircraft is designed to take off and land just fine with only half its engines running.  

 

 

 

Edited December 22, 2018 by peejman