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Re:FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @02:25AM (#18173733)
How confident are you a 100g toy pulled through a turbofan or propeller won’t mess it up?

Sure, if it stays inside your house, quite confident.

I’m quite confident the only thing other than air a turbofan or aircraft propeller is designed to cope with is rain / fog / cloud.

Edit to add: looks like the toys you mentioned are around 30g. I stand by my point though.

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Re:FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals by NeedMoreTea on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @02:27AM (#18173742)
Actually, they fire chickens at them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun

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Re:FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals by dotancohen on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @05:49AM (#18174528)
Chickens do not have stainless steel, glass, or aluminum components, nor lithium ion battery packs.

And I have well over a dozen quadcopters (not drones, because I manually pilot them) right here next to me.

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Re:FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @02:49AM (#18173814)
Indeed!

Jet engines and aircraft windshields are particularly vulnerable to damage from such strikes

Definitely one of my all-time favourite things to watch are videos of said chicken cannons ;)

Turbofans are designed to cope with bird strikes in the the-end-didn’t-fly-apart-and-fatally-damage-the-aircraft sense of cope.

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