How high do birds generally fly?
The article says the plane was 2800ft over the ground.
That settles it. I’m not flying to Denver any more. I’ll drive from now on.
“Greg Feith also posed the idea that in the pilots haste, he may have mistaken it for a large bird”
Sure Greg.
“Big Brother over Denver?”
I think UC Boulder is building UAVs. I’m sure they’re getting lots of funding from the FEDS. They’re fighting terrorism.
Probably some RC hobbyist playing with his toys.............
“Large.”
How large?
A UFO piloted by Bigfoot?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17805201
Iran has begun building a copy of the US surveillance drone it captured last year, after breaking its encryption codes, Iranian officials say.
“The Americans should be aware to what extent we have infiltrated the plane,” General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, military aerospace chief said.
The RQ-170 Sentinel was shown on Iranian state television last December.
Tehran says it was brought down using electronic warfare; Washington says it malfunctioned.
US Senator Joe Lieberman dismissed the claim that a copy was being made as “Iranian bluster” saying, “they’re on the defensive because of our economic sanctions against them”.
But Gen Hajizadeh said: “Our experts have full understanding of its components and programmes.”
He said that Iran had managed to hack the controls of the drone, thus enabling the Iranians to reverse-engineer the aircraft to make its own copy.
US officials have previously asked for the drone to be returned but Iran has refused, saying that the US should instead apologise for invading Iranian air space.
Washington has long said that Iran will find it hard to exploit any data and technology aboard it because of measures taken to limit the intelligence value of drones operating over hostile territory.
Although analysts believe lessons could certainly be learnt about how the machine was put together, reverse-engineering has generally been seen by experts as beyond Iran’s capability.
I was at Gene Coulon park in Renton about 20 years ago flying a kite. I use fishing line so it can go pretty much straight up. Anyway, the boeing plant and the renton airport are nearby. Lots of small aircraft landing and taking off.
The cops actually showed up and told me to reel it in.
People are making their own recon drones these days and they scoff the notion of having to get FAA approval. Some are even on this site.
I think this is about the first time the media hasn’t called these events “near misses”. Maybe the grammar police are making progress.
It’s worth it if some guys trying to steal some cows.
But how many incidents do we need before "coincidence" is ruled out?
Police Drone ???? Has it come to that?