drones

(other drones threads were about a band named drones)

this looks pretty cool

http://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/100000004029904/drone-racing-dreams.html

a work colleague in london said his new thing was flying drones in front of his neighbor's window

Kites are the og drones

waht about birds

Do U control birds?

https://i.imgur.com/NmLIhXF.jpg

lol

Gatwick fucked by two drones (or maybe one, or maybe a helicopter, or aliens, but probably drones).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-46623754

Gatwick fucked by two drones (or maybe one, or maybe a helicopter, or aliens, but probably drones).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-46623754

i am sitting on tarmac @ heathrow - plane delayed who knows how long - knock-on effect thruout region

They can't use bullets to take them down but are there no crack-shot catapultists in the Met?

'no idea' when airport will reopen as police still trying to catch drones

what is the battery life on these things? how hard is it to triangulate the signal to find the operator?

More than 16 and half hours after a drone was first spotted at Gatwick it has still not be disabled.

Trying my best not to be clueless internet commentator criticising things he has no idea about, but, really?

That's pretty crazy that there's no way to neutralize these...
It's a very easy way for terrorists or whatever to mess with a whole country, then !

Battery life is ~30 minutes so yeah.

this is a job for Iron Mike, let's get him up on a chopper

Some guy in the Guardian says there are "drone rifles" which lock onto the drone's specific frequency and disable it. Unsurprisingly, Gatwick Airport doesn't have one of these.

Shoulda kept those water cannon.

Smart viral campaign for the Éliane Radigue box set.

sorry for you Tracer, that sucks

less sympathetic to the family on the radio just who were flying out to Lappland (sic) to see Santa Claus

I had read/seen that some highly sensitive sites (nuclear plants, etc) had trained hawks, eagles or something to take down drones.
that's badass !

Any particular reason why a cancelled family trip to (one presumes) Finland for Christmas is less than deserving of your full sympathy?

xp

cos I'm a spiteful git

My friends have had their trip to Austria fucked, no chance for an alternative flight for some reason.

My wife is supposed to be flying to Austria on Saturday to stay with a family there and see the traditional Austrian Xmas which is something she's wanted to see for years. She doesn't have many Xmases left so my opinion of the people doing this is let's say not good. It's perhaps a small mercy that the rail strike caused me to cancel my trip home to the Midlands this weekend so at least if her flight gets cancelled I'll be at home

Follow Buzzy the Drone!

Yes, this is an official Federal Aviation Administration initiative.

Has there been any article yet about other countries preparedness? Is it just the Conservative government that's terrible at this, or is Gatwick something that could happen anywhere? It seems weirdly implacable, like Eyjafjallajökull.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/21/terrorists-are-building-drones-france-is-destroying-them-with-eagles/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.53c5f8d40c6c

The birds of prey I was talking about !

My apologies - that is awesome!

I read an article saying they'd stopped trying to use eagles because the rotors on larger drones could damage their talons

Maybe eagles with laser beams attached to their heads ?

They're back (possibly).

a) periscopeitis: gatwick shut down for three days courtesy actual real old-skool mass hallucination
b) greens are grumbling behind their hands that it's anti-deportation protestors furiously (rightly) angry abt the stansted 25

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-46665615

lol

They just rounded up the first Graun readers they could find eh?

Meanwhile, the two suspects who were pictured and named by some news outlets will try to return to their normal lives.

Apart from waiting to receive a considerable amount of money from some news outlets.

the NKVD will be coming for imago's hero next.

£50k reward? I would so grass someone up for that amount.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship

"We cannot discount the possibility that there were no drones at all." Police on BBC News.
Ohmygod. #GatwickDrones

— James Goss (@gossjam) December 23, 2018

I want to believe

YESSSSSS

https://thehobbledehoycom.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/feathers-mcgraw.jpg?w=656&h=495

man when I tried looking on twitter to see if there was any news before my wife's flight it was just constant streams of people tweeting that picture over and over and over. reminded me why I don't use twitter anymore.

as it happens her flight went out on time

sorry, couldn't resist

Gonna air a side of me that I usually keep off the Internet but claiming there was no drone now reeks of government cover-up to me: https://t.co/Qgt0Rojpvo

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) December 24, 2018

Read this thread that places drone strike within context of possible hybrid warfare. Maximum disruption for minimum outlay. "Wanker with a drone" angle was convenient for govt. National security - including economic - wide open & completely defencelesshttps://t.co/JnM2Rxa2OM

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) December 23, 2018

Now that the original Drone Truther position (there were no drones) has become mainstream, please move on to the updated Drone Truther position.

Aw yeah, time for some motherfuckin game theory

there was heavy "must be the Russians" hinting from the Beeb throughout the original reporting, all the stuff about "no ordinary drone could fly around for that long" etc

i'm ok with WWIII being fought thru the medium of inconvenience tbh

"the liberties we enjoy have been made by those that made the ultimate sacrifice, those poor bastards that arrived in Lapland 3 days late..."

tiny remote controlled black hole like the one that went rogue in tunguska in 1911

broke: you can't actually see a black hole
woke: yes you can
bespoke: quite soon we all will

snoke: excellent

I wonder if a tunguska type event had happened in the 50's, if the doomsday machines might have finished off the job.

In historical perspective, the phantom drone sightings at Gatwick make perfect sense. They are the 21st-century equivalent of apparitions of phantom battles seen in the sky at moments of national crisis, such as the apparitions seen over Edgehill just before Christmas 1642 pic.twitter.com/IOVIsvrTXF

— Dr Francis Young (@DrFrancisYoung) December 24, 2018

Pump this news story INTO MY VEINS https://t.co/HrxJMUJxxp pic.twitter.com/VktxwYKXF6

— Mike Bird (@Birdyword) December 24, 2018

I don't want no drone
A drone is a thing I can't hear on the phone from you

I had a really shit drone, it was uncontrollable and got stuck up a huge poplar in the park. Probably could have still done a job on Grayling and our idiot bizzies with it.

Chief Constable of Sussex: Some of the drone sightings may have been police drones looking for other drones. #bbcr4today

— Matthew Scott (@Barristerblog) December 29, 2018

lool! They need to get their big gun DCI Benny Hill onto this case, lest they become a laughing stock.

The worst way to look for an aerial drone is from above with all the ground clutter.

Any drone with more than an hour flytime would be gasoline powered, and would glow in thermal vision from below.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/b59ca9d335775194c1ec73969c22b0c2/tumblr_oxkbqqWnK71qfirg5o4_r2_400.gif

Heathrow departures stopped as drone reported https://t.co/j4NJbZelJo

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) January 8, 2019

*raucous cheers*