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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by Applejinx on Thursday September 27, 2018 @08:31PM (#18090065)
Pretty sure that one was CGI: no lights, and the drone did NOT get completely wiped out by the jet's wake, which I think is pretty conclusive. I suppose we could assume that maybe one day a drone pilot COULD do that for real.

Also… mighty fast 'drone', to nearly accelerate to the speed of a landing jet. I don't think they make quadcopters quite that brisk yet.

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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by chillfox on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:12AM (#18091013)
Wake turbulence moves down and with the wind. Looking at the video the drone was above the aircraft and would therefore not experience significant wake turbulence.
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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by reaperducer on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:07AM (#18090988)
Also… mighty fast 'drone', to nearly accelerate to the speed of a landing jet. I don't think they make quadcopters quite that brisk yet.

We must be thinking of different encounter videos. In the one I saw, the drone didn’t move much. It sat in the flight path waiting for a jet to come by.

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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by Applejinx on Saturday September 29, 2018 @02:40PM (#18102011)
The drone waits for the jet to come down below it, then leans sharply forward to chase it. In doing this, it drops quite a bit of altitude and hits probably a couple hundred miles an hour before it subsides and lets the jet fly on. The manuevers are quite plausible, the speed not so much. Unless the jet was actually a blimp shaped like a jet :)
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