Cross-posting from my other thread today:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3014940/posts?page=52#52
To: DCBryan1
Mini copters hitting a 747 aint going to bring it down.
Thanks for your comment. I appreciate real-world military related experience.
Your examples did not involve intentional ingestion of a drone by a high-bypass turbofan...a very delicate machine.
As posted up-thread, here, again is the link to the crash of a 747 freighter which was done in by a tiny kestrel bird:
The aircraft experienced a stall in its inboard right-hand Pratt & Whitney JT9D engine after it ingested a kestrel during the take-off roll on 25 May last year.
A single Canada Goose can take out a jet engine as seen with Captain Sullys crash in the Hudson and with the AWACS Yukla-27 crash, and they weigh less and have softer parts than available cheap multi-copters.
Here is the accident report on the AWACS Yukla-27, which inspired my blog (please check the blog out when you get home!):
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19950922-0
52 posted on Thursday, May 2, 2013 2:48:38 PM by Seizethecarp ((Defend aircraft from “runway kill zone” mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
There have been only a few bird strikes that caused crashes with fatalities, but many more bird strikes that caused no fatalities and even more that didn’t cause much damage. I’m not an expert on that particular matter but have consulted today with one who knows quite a bit about it (military aircraft maintenance for quite a few years).
If there’s concern about airport security, then I’m sure that airport security folks have the tools they need to stop our enemies from flying model helicopters in paths of landing commercial aircraft. It’s highly likely that law is already in place for them to ground such obstructions.
For example, it’s probably not legal to fly any small aircraft in the direct path of a large aircraft and keep it there. I don’t know that for sure, buy you might check FAA documents. :-)