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Re:IRIS+ by JoeAltmaier on Saturday October 04, 2014 @08:49AM (#8409371)
Jet engines have to survive the Chicken Test, which is to throw a frozen chicken into the engine running at full speed. A drone would have to be made pretty chewy to stop a jet engine.

And then the plane just lands. They can fly with an engine out.

Re:IRIS+ by JoeAltmaier on Saturday October 04, 2014 @09:13AM (#8409408)
Re:IRIS+ by doorhammer on Saturday October 04, 2014 @01:17PM (#8409928)
"The most pyrotechnic test of all requires that dynamite charges be strapped to the compressor blades and detonated while the engine is going full blast."