Duh.
Posted on 07/21/2015 2:22:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Austin Haughwout posted a video that shows a four-propeller drone hovering as it fires four shots in a wooded area
An 18-year-old Connecticut man may be in trouble with federal aviation officials after posting a video online that shows shots being fired from a drone that had been jury-rigged with a handgun.
The FAA said Tuesday it is investigating whether Austin Haughwout of Clinton violated its regulations, which prohibit the careless or reckless operation of a model aircraft.
Haughwout’s father told WFSB-TV last week that his son created the drone with the help of a Central Connecticut State University professor. The 14-second video shows a four-propeller drone with a semiautomatic handgun strapped on top hovering as it fires four shots in a wooded area.
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These drones are becoming a nuisance or worse. Interfering with landing planes, preventing fire fighting.
What to do?
I’m surprised a military contractor hasn’t hired him
Duh.
My thoughts too.
ISIS + Armed Drone + Yankee Stadium.
Coming Soon!
No more open air stadiums unless we develop an Automated Anti-Drone Air Defense System (AADADS).
“The only limit will be the imaginations of millions.”
You can sit anywhere you can see a runway and fly a model airplane into a jet taking off. After a while you’ll get good enough to get it into the suction stream of an engine. That would kill an engine. Now, add a bit of explosive.
Nobody wants to even think about things like this because they can’t be easily or cheaply defended against. It’s like using airplanes as guided bombs. Authorities knew this was on terrorist’s minds ten years before 911 because they almost did it to the Eiffel tower. The plot was stopped by an alert Arabic speaking passenger who overheard and alerted the crew to the plan.
No action was taken simply because normalcy bias made the expense of guarding against it unacceptable. Until, it had already happened. Then we ended up with TSA; a race horse designed by a committee.
Well, probably firing it into the woods was reckless. There could have been someone in there that wasn’t visible on the drone’s camera. Generally, when you discharge a firearm without making sure nobody is in the line of fire, it’s considered a reckless discharge.
I am assuming it was a .22.
I know the guys who built this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x8IFTa2ulA4
I knew of a guy years ago flying around in an ultra light shooting. He got in a bunch of trouble back then.
The Powers that Be cannot allow the bad juju of guns to be combined with the bad juju of drones. It would scare the elites too badly.
“If it’s on private property I don’t think there is much they can do.....”
Many places have laws against remote firing of firearms. That place in Texas that offered hunts for handicapped veterans got into trouble for rigging some of the guns to fire remotely (by switches instead of triggers).
Such things will happen. We can mostly hope that those who resort to such uses will be few and far between. Of course, we can count on terrorists to make some destructive use of small drones.
“The FAA said Tuesday it is investigating whether Austin Haughwout of Clinton violated its regulations, which prohibit the careless or reckless operation of a model aircraft.”
Should be legal. Covered by the second amendment as arms
and original intent. It can be used to keep the government
in check and secure our borders.
Wait till those in the Chicago hood have these...
“You can sit anywhere you can see a runway and fly a model airplane into a jet taking off. After a while you’ll get good enough to get it into the suction stream of an engine. That would kill an engine. Now, add a bit of explosive.”
I vaguely knew a guy in high school back in the 1970’s whose family farm was near the edge of DFW airport. He got drunk in his pickup and started trying to shoot out the running lights of aircraft that were taking off. He must have gotten close enough with a shot that someone noticed because the county sheriffs and Grapevine city police were there pretty fast
He might be out of jail by now
Homicide bummers will no longer need to apply.
An anti-drone drone.
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