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January 7th, 2019, 05:32 PM | #16 |
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Re: London Gatwick Airport: Drones ground flights [BBC News]
The net result appears to be a tightening of the regulations,
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January 7th, 2019, 07:54 PM | #17 |
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Re: London Gatwick Airport: Drones ground flights [BBC News]
Fun, they don't know who it was, the don't know exactly what kind of drone it was, they may never find out, and it may have not been a drone until people started seeing police drones.
This will totally solve the issue! /s |
January 8th, 2019, 12:12 PM | #18 |
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Now Heathrow ...
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January 8th, 2019, 04:43 PM | #19 |
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Re: London Gatwick Airport: Drones ground flights [BBC News]
Of course, people are now looking for drones at airports. Anything they see in the sky, the might report as a drone. I've had people point out drones to me there were actually airplanes.
Until there is any evidence of any drone other than someone saying "I think I saw a drone!" I remain skeptical. There is precedence for this. Remember the killer clowns scare? |
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Personally, even if I was due to fly at that time, I would rather that appropriate precautions were taken. Don't forget, a lot of people were inconvenienced but nobody was killed or injured throughout the event. |
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Where did I give that idea. The police investigate all kinds of bullshit all the time. This is no difference. But you don't start passing laws making clown costumes illegal.
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Police were investigating kids claiming clowns were stalking them. Since that's "plausible" then what's "plausible" ceases to have any real meaning.
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And you can go ahead and list all the drones that have brought down a plane so far. Go ahead, I'll wait. |
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Here's a really good article about what I think is really going on here.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...mes-180968011/ Just replace "drone" with "UFO". Thankfully, none of these reports (such as people reporting seeing a UFO over O'Hare in 2006) resulted in shutting down an airport, although UFO reports have shut down airports in China. The Heathrow incident is now under investigation. I will predict that, like Gatwick, there will be nothing. |
January 11th, 2019, 09:49 AM | #27 |
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I gather the Heathrow drone was seen by a BBC news cameraman who uses drones for his work. I can't speak for the videos that showed what looked like a drone at the airport.
Certainly mass "sightings" have a history, however, you can only go on what observers say and if their background makes them credible. There can be explanations for sightings, although drones are more likely objects than flying saucers and they have distinctive lights at night. |
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There are plenty of people with credible backgrounds who make all kinds of crazy claims. That's a terrible way to consider the validity of someone's mere word. There are former Air Force officers claiming that aliens are messing with our nuclear arsenal. In your opinion, their background as being an officer in the Air Force and serving at these silo locations, makes them credible?
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Conspiracy theories are rather different to possible visual/optical/natural artifacts that may result in misreporting or possible misuse of drones by users.
Drones near airports or flight paths is currently regarded as a potential threat by aviation and the security forces. Drones have been used to supply drugs etc to prisoners. so it's a quite possible for them to be used for other illegal purposes. |
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