Posted on 09/29/2017 3:28:42 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Mr. Arterburn needs to brush up on his helicopter dynamics.
There is nothing different about the advancing or retreating blade from a drone strike perspective. The relative velocities between the drone and the blade are identical.
The difference between the advancing and the retreating blade is only aerodynamic while in forward flight, where the apparent wind speed of the retreating blade is slower than that of the advancing blade, thus affecting the lift generated by the blade.
If you don't have a drone now and want one, I'd give it 24 - 48 hours before the shelves are empty.
Other than being easier to fly, a so-called drone, as the media likes to call them, is nothing more than a radio controlled aircraft; and radio controlled aircraft have been around for over 50 years. Perhaps people have less common sense now to avoid operating an R/C aircraft near real aircraft.
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Perhaps it’s a variant that is different from your model, perhaps prices have gone up based on demand, or perhaps you’re a better shopper, but this was my source.
Agree completely. It’s going to get worse, I think a lot worse, before it gets better. What’s surprised me is just how quickly the drone problem has deteriorated. I thought we had more time, but hadn’t counted on the widespread availability of what are apparently fairly highly capable commercial drones. I was thinking, oh, terrorist nations will have to develop their own, and that isn’t easy... Nope, they’re buying them off the shelf! Now this incident looks like it was probably an accident, but it’s easy to predict a lot worse is coming.
I got one of these drones in June, but I haven’t flown it yet. I didn’t realize when I got it that the controller had to be purchased separately for about $150. I’ll get one, but I wish I’d known about the controller being a separate purchase when I bought it.
> All of this stuff is mandated now, but very few drone operators are even aware of the rules.
Thanks. I didn’t know about the test.
There was nothing mentioned about it when I bought one.
I guess I haven’t broken any law yet as I don’t have the RF controller to fly the damn thing, yet. I didn’t know the controller was a separate purchase.
That's the one you have. There are drones that cost far, far more than that.
A few years ago my nephew got my brother-in-law an RC helicopter for his birthday. He smashed the hell out of it the first and only time he tried to fly it..........LOL!
The drone pilot was probably a whacked out mussie trying to bring down any aircraft he could ram his toy into...
The civilian helicopter would have FARED much worse.
Do they teach English in journalism schools these days?
Difference is that a plane can at least make something of a controlled crash without an engine.
A helicopter is SOL when those blades stop.
Auto-rotation. All helo pilots have to demonstrate competence, else all they fly is a desk.
Planes can’t fly without power unless airspeed is maintained over the wings, same idea as auto-rotation.
True the 200 range is arbitrary. But it’s better than your seemingly throwing up your hands and saying it’s the people’s fault who operate the drones. Of course it’s the people’s fault who operate the drones, we all know that but if they are not going to be responsible and act in a proper way then action must be taken to make sure that they cannot kill other people.
Was it an Amazon delivery drone?
#18 Did you lose it recently in New York? : )
One of those little hand-sized drones, or something bigger?
Question answered- 8 pounds plus.
Yes, neither drones nor “air cars” in the future will be able to avoid or ignore “traffic lanes”.
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