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Momentary Thread Hijack... @Basher makes a good point. Talking about things hitting an aircraft. If one of these drones connects with an aircraft the results would be devastating and possibly fatal.. This happened to me 8 years ago, a small bird, estimated to be about 4 lbs, at 200 knots. We found half of said bird inside. $300K in damage. The radome, radar and the first bulkhead had to be replaced. The radar dish itself was bent almost completely in half like a taco. Now imagine one of our helicopters with only a piece of lexan in front of the pilot vs a Phantom... Bad news
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Momentary Thread Hijack... @Basher makes a good point. Talking about things hitting an aircraft. If one of these drones connects with an aircraft the results would be devastating and possibly fatal.. This happened to me 8 years ago, a small bird, estimated to be about 4 lbs, at 200 knots. We found half of said bird inside. $300K in damage. The radome, radar and the first bulkhead had to be replaced. The radar dish itself was bent almost completely in half like a taco. Now imagine one of our helicopters with only a piece of lexan in front of the pilot vs a Phantom... Bad news
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Momentary Thread Hijack... @Basher makes a good point. Talking about things hitting an aircraft. If one of these drones connects with an aircraft the results would be devastating and possibly fatal.. This happened to me 8 years ago, a small bird, estimated to be about 4 lbs, at 200 knots. We found half of said bird inside. $300K in damage. The radome, radar and the first bulkhead had to be replaced. The radar dish itself was bent almost completely in half like a taco. Now imagine one of our helicopters with only a piece of lexan in front of the pilot vs a Phantom... Bad news
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It sounded like someone hit the plane with a baseball bat, hard...REALLY hard. I've hit a metric fuck ton of birds in the last 25 years, but that one did the most damage. As "luck" would have it tho, that's prolly the best place to take a hard hit like that. Any higher and wouldve come thru the windscreen, left or right, into the engines.FMR! That's insane....or to me....a non pilot....that's insane. But I guess at 200 knots that fluffy little 4lb meat sack has some serious kinetic potential. Glad everyone was ok. What did it sound like when it happened?
Deer and coyotes leave immediately.
So far the pigs have ignored the big mosquito.
I did not know they had the zenmuse xt for the mavic, I thought it was only compatible to the matrice & Inspire 1 2.0. But I’ve been out of the drone game for a little bit haha. The new Inspire 2 won’t even accept the zenmuse xt
I guess they listened to consumers about needing a more powerful thermal for the newer series of drones... just found this on the DJI site.