Gatwick Chaos

[Hobosapien]

Oh the horror!

I included that as an insight into what it must have been like for those poor sods stuck in the airport where even basic services were unable to cope.

I presume once through security you're stuck hoping for the flight to go ahead and can't simply just walk back out and come back later without lots of faff and likely lengthy queues.

Shockingly bad response by the authorities. They could easily have disabled the drone by twatting it with a police helicopter skid or staying out of reach up above it and dropping a net over it. Drones can't out fly a helicopter!

[Paddy]

Find the ****er who did and sue them.

It seems that it is a local anti Gatwick activist.

[NickFitz]

It seems that it is a local anti Gatwick activist.

Probably one of those idiots that buys a house twenty yards from the end of the runway, then starts complaining about the noise

[Acme Thunderer]

Even a large drone, the diameter of a bin lid would not bring down an airliner. It took a flock of geese and multiple strikes to force the plane in the US to ditch in the New York river. Even so, the pilot made a controlled landing.

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A drone isn't made of muscle, skin and bone which are fairly easy for an aircraft engine to survive ingesting. A Drone will have carbon fibre, some metal and a battery. All of which are far worse for an engine to ingest. It is also not the engine failure that would be the problem - twin engine aircraft are designed to continue to fly with an engine failure at takeoff. It is how the engine fails. Even though the engine nacelle is designed to stop bits coming out, sometimes they don't. Broken fan blade(s) through the fuselage anyone?

[Hobosapien]

Whoever it is.... dun dun dun ..... he's back.

Gatwick flights suspended again after suspected drone sighting - BBC News

Got to admire their mentalness and balls. Hope the British Army slot the bastard.

Edit: Swear filter's failed.

[northernladyuk]

[BR14]

Do Lucasfilm know about 'the drone wars'?

[northernladyuk]

Do Lucasfilm know about 'the drone wars'?

It's been parody, so protected.

[BR14]

It's been parody, so protected.

Whatever, - made Me chuckle , - ta muchly

[NickFitz]

Interesting Twitter thread from a chap who knows his drones, and theorises that the attackers could be using up to 48 self-built drones, moving around between launches in a wide area (he includes maps). Archived so you don't have put up with Twitter's website: Thread by @brad3d: "Retail drones with remote telemetry can’t fly near airports, they are locked out in software. DJI drones can’t get within 2.5km of […]" #GatwickAirport #GatwickDrones #drones #BadGuys