Another UFO blaming consumer drones...they have to blame something, forget about it being a phenomena better known as UFO or UAP's which exist 100 percent by the way. So powers to be will use drones now as an excuse..In 2002 a cesna was torn apart in midair collided with something , no planes on radar etc...killed the pilot..NTSB blamed pilot error but their were plane parts scattered in quarter mile radius and pilot was 1/2 half mile away in swamp. So I would be more nervous as a pilot encountering UAP colliding with a plane than a 1.5 lb drone , also another bit of real stats, 2000 bird strikes in Canada last year and not one plane taken down...some of these birds are 20 lb geese...so there you go..Bottom line no pilot wants to collide with anything while flying their plane, I get it...but the hype against drone industry over heated for no reason at all..
The whole point is, a small plastic device caused a jet engine to pretty much destroy itself because of broken compressor blades, and nearly instantly too. Had that F-16 engine been airborne when it ingested that plastic cassette, it would have been an aircraft lost and perhaps a pilot and people on the ground killed (Low altitude elections have a high failure rate. ). Anyway, I just hate seeing anyone poo-poo the threat of a drone against an airborne aircraft. It's serious and potentially very deadly.Maybe, that's why they have FOD walks, but then again the F16 wasn't flying so it didn't actually bring it down - which seems to be the theme of this thread -. But its highly lightly if they knew something had been injested, then as a mater of course it would have been shut down and inspected , although I find it hard to believe a plastic cassette tape 'trashed' a complete engine to the point it was trash.
But I wasn't there so who knows.
Luckily this Chinook was build of stronger stuff than that F16 or the Chinook were talking about here
What's So Special About This RAF Chinook? | Fighter Sweep
Although after 30 + years of surviving war zones, who knows maybe it will finally meet its end at the hand of someone armed with no more than a mavic drone - or maybe even a plastic video cassette ;-)
I'm sure it was the metal pins inside the cassette that destroyed that engine. I'm not down playing the inherent danger it poses, but you are comparing two very different platforms as if though they are the same in an airborne scenario. Not to mention the unique physics each craft has. Logically there was no immediate danger, since the article states the pilot saw the 1-meter wide drone that supposedly looked like a mavic at a very close distance and was able to commence evasive maneuvers and still catch a glimpse of it as they flew by.
Most military aircraft have a pitot and airspeed indication probes. So, to be clear 2 probes. Some are equipped as one unit.
Not true... If a drone was to be taken into the jet turbine engine, that would take the Chinook down. I have spent 2 years around that aircraft and have seen them dissassembled. No question that a drone in the intake would bring it down, just like a bird strike on a jet liner!
It said it was flying at 138 mph I believe so it was at an angle, meaning the drone had to go through the spinning blades to get to the intake
First of all that's not a "Chinook" despite the name of the video . . it's a European twin rotor "something or other" flown by the Swedes . . that said . . .1lb drone kinetic energy is not the threat . . idiots who fly them with impunity . . are.
Pilots make mistakes all the time, even RAF pilots. The more I look at this article, the more I'm convinced that what the pilot saw (for a split second) was a Common Buzzard. When I've been out and about flying my Mavic, I've often seen Common Buzzards flying way up there on the thermals. They can easily glide up to several thousand feet in altitude. Makes the 400ft altitude limit for drone here in the UK a complete joke. The UK Common Buzzard is a fairly large bird of prey (bigger and heavier than a Mavic) and has no respect for airspace whatsoever!
I've been trying to figure out when and how they removed people's backbone.
CH-46 have been around for a while as well, but are equally as agile as its counterpart.
Better read the manual again. Its ceiling is 16,400 feet, If it is below 1600 feet many areas in around the world would not be able to fly it. I have flown my at a AGL starting at 2100 ft.
