When drones fall from the sky...

[empip]

Commercial drone flights are set to become a widespread reality in the United States, starting next year, under a 2012 law passed by Congress. Drone flights by law enforcement agencies and the military, which already occur on a limited basis, are projected to surge...

Ah but... http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/06/20/when-drones-fall-from-the-sky/

Here we go again !!

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[EddieM]

Titter ye not!

A $3.8 million Predator carrying a Hellfire missile cratered near Kandahar in January 2010 because the pilot did not realize she had been flying the aircraft upside-down.

 

[AronSearle]

Commercial drone flights are set to become a widespread reality in the United States, starting next year, under a 2012 law passed by Congress. Drone flights by law enforcement agencies and the military, which already occur on a limited basis, are projected to surge...

Ah but... http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/06/20/when-drones-fall-from-the-sky/

Here we go again !!

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Do you support terrorism, do you want the terrorist to win?

We have to protect our children.

 

[gigz]

Titter ye not!

A $3.8 million Predator carrying a Hellfire missile cratered near Kandahar in January 2010 because the pilot did not realize she had been flying the aircraft upside-down.

If she'd been in the house ironing/hoovering this would never have happened. Incoming !!!

 

[Newboy]

more than 400 accidents involving drones - not exactly reliable are they!?

 

[jockscott]

Military drones have slammed into homes, farms, runways, highways, waterways and, in one case, an Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane in midair.

Amazing that none seemed to crash in the middle of nowhere.

 

[enyam]

more than 400 accidents involving drones - not exactly reliable are they!?

The drones are reliable its the pilots.

A $3.8 million Predator carrying a Hellfire missile cratered near Kandahar in January 2010 because the pilot did not realize she had been flying the aircraft upside-down.

 

[JBR]

I wonder whether it's something to do with visibility. Piloting a drone, I presume that you have only a forward-looking camera, whereas on onboard pilot can look around in just about every direction.

 

[EddieM]

I wonder whether it's something to do with visibility. Piloting a drone, I presume that you have only a forward-looking camera, whereas on onboard pilot can look around in just about every direction.

Dunno, but under normal level flying the sky is at the top

 

[Astra99]

Titter ye not!

A $3.8 million Predator carrying a Hellfire missile cratered near Kandahar in January 2010 because the pilot did not realize she had been flying the aircraft upside-down.

Now what was that joke I heard about women drivers? You know, the one which was old when your grandfather was young!

 

[EddieM]

Titter ye not!

A $3.8 million Predator carrying a Hellfire missile cratered near Kandahar in January 2010 because the pilot did not realize she had been flying the aircraft upside-down.

If she'd been in the house ironing/hoovering this would never have happened. Incoming !!!

Re-reading it however, it does make you wonder whether it was she or the drone that was upside down, it's not clear!

 

[empip]

Part 2.
Domestic (US) airspace.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/in...as-military-flies-more-drones-in-u-s/?hpid=z2

...Now, the military and the federal government are preparing for a far bigger expansion of drone flights that will transform U.S. aviation — but could also pose the biggest challenge to safe air travel in decades.

Thanks in part to a new federal law that will open the national airspace to drones of all kinds, the Pentagon is planning to operate thousands of drones from at least 110 bases in 39 states, plus Guam and Puerto Rico, by 2017...

...under orders from Congress, the Federal Aviation Administration is preparing rules that will allow civilian drone flights across much of the country. The agency predicts that as many as 7,500 small commercial drones could take to the skies by 2018...

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[Nige F]

What about a drone on a conveyor belt

 

[EddieM]

What about a drone on a conveyor belt

Upside down or right way up?

 

[blueagle78]

Americans have perfected the Drones technology by testing in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Now they would make billions from other countries!