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[Boogs]

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I suspect that with super-speed, he can make do with a supply closet.

Well there goes all my 'street cred', I never even knew he had a middle name!
(whadda mean, I never had any street cred?)

 

[Boogs]

How about a pocketable auto-erectable light-weight but full-sized 'phonebox' (of the country of choice)?

Apropos almost nothing, anyone a fan of Wonder Wart-hog?

 

[Mr. Stevens]

 

[maycontainthunder]

 

[Boogs]

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You mean you didn't spot the mouse hitching a ride on the bird?

 

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The image @maycontainthunder posted is real, I've seen other similar images before demonstrating the importance of wind drag in flight. There's a lot of fake images around though that must confuse the hell out of people that don't know much about wildlife.

The picture below is a classic. The bird is an American Bald Eagle which in real life isn't much bigger than a pigeon, doesn't live in Africa or India, and only eats fish.

 

[VictorR]

 

[Kisa the tea]

 

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More on eagles. I just read a story about a Dutch company that's trying to train Bald Eagles to attack drones and protect airports.

They're using the wrong bird, our wedge tailed eagles do that without training. They also attack paragliders, ultralight aircraft, helicopters and small fixed wing planes.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-company-training-eagles-to-kill-drones

 

[Boogs]

More on eagles. I just read a story about a Dutch company that's trying to train Bald Eagles to attack drones and protect airports.

They're using the wrong bird, our wedge tailed eagles do that without training. They also attack paragliders, ultralight aircraft, helicopters and small fixed wing planes.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-company-training-eagles-to-kill-drones

The nasty aspect that strikes me first of all, is that the moment they are commercially successful (and/or combat proven) with their eagles, what do they think serious drone makers/modifiers are going to do?
Clusters of poisoned razor blades with barbs? Something even worse? This stinks somewhat, like the Russians (and all the others) who have used marine animals for combat duties.
not to mention (I think you mentioned! ) how controlled targeting is managed? (etc blah blah, grumble whinge moan whine .... . .. . .

 

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The nasty aspect that strikes me first of all, is that the moment they are commercially successful (and/or combat proven) with their eagles, what do they think serious drone makers/modifiers are going to do?

That's already happening here, in the little video clip I included the drone wasn't some child's toy. It was $80,000 worth of high tech equipment with a 2 metre wingspan being used by a surveyor and mapping consultant.

So now they're looking at things like pepper spray to try and protect their drones.

 

[Catwoman]

 

[Boogs]

That's already happening here, in the little video clip I included the drone wasn't some child's toy. It was $80,000 worth of high tech equipment with a 2 metre wingspan being used by a surveyor and mapping consultant.

So now they're looking at things like pepper spray to try and protect their drones.

Well what a surprise! ( )

 

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Well what a surprise! ( )

Why paragliding and ultra light aircraft aren't all that popular in central Australia:

 

[Boogs]

That's already happening here, in the little video clip I included the drone wasn't some child's toy. It was $80,000 worth of high tech equipment with a 2 metre wingspan being used by a surveyor and mapping consultant.

So now they're looking at things like pepper spray to try and protect their drones.

And of course, the most reliable and cheap and effective defensive, will undoubtedly be the nastiest most damaging and permanently disabling for the bird! Because when it comes to war, cost and efficiency are so much a part of the game (and have been since WW2 and the US's tactic of out-producing).
War is an engine, that's lubricated with the cheapest source of your enemies blood you can find. Hence the use of civilians, even non-combatants like children - because they are cheap and easy to damage and kill, and the effect is more devastating to the enemy.

 

[Boogs]

Why paragliding and ultra light aircraft aren't all that popular in central Australia:

Wow! You know, that seemed so much like a typical jet fighter flypast/oversight of a potential enemy plane near a border or on track for their airspace! It ddn't seem to want to engage, but seemed to want to drive the ultralight away from what i presume would be it's hunting territories - I mean, a rival predator that big has got to be a worry for a bird of prey? Eat all the available animals?

 

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And of course, the most reliable and cheap and effective defensive, will undoubtedly be the nastiest most damaging and permanently disabling for the bird!

Except for our wildlife protection laws, we're pretty strict on that sort of thing here and if people harm a protected animal they'll really suffer for it.

Wow! You know, that seemed so much like a typical jet fighter flypast/oversight of a potential enemy plane near a border or on track for their airspace!

It's a shame he only had a wing mounted camera and not a hand held, but in the still image for that video you can see that the bird has it's talons extended, they don't fly like that. They only extend talons when they strike or land so in all those shots you know that the bird has actually struck the wing of the craft.

There's also a few videos of paragliders having a similar problem but I can't post them here because of all the swearing. It must be pretty scary to be hanging by a fragile stretch of cloth and have a bird attack it.

 

[Forest Cat]

Wow! You know, that seemed so much like a typical jet fighter flypast/oversight of a potential enemy plane near a border or on track for their airspace! It ddn't seem to want to engage, but seemed to want to drive the ultralight away from what i presume would be it's hunting territories - I mean, a rival predator that big has got to be a worry for a bird of prey? Eat all the available animals?

It's Australia, I don't think the eagle is worried. It probably eats airplanes and people. And I'll bet it's poisonous too.

 

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Many years ago my father dropped me off at Darwin airport, I was catching a red eye special down to Melbourne. My plane was 20 minutes late getting in and as soon as it landed the pilot and copilot climbed out, walked under the left hand wing and opened the engine cowling, both of them stood there pointing and scratching their heads.

I asked my father what was going on and he said they probably had an ibis go through the engine when landing. Then the pilots shrugged their shoulders, closed up the cowling and walked away. I said to the old man "What's going on now then?" and he said "It's not cooked yet.".

That flight ended up leaving an hour and forty minutes late. Half an hour in to the flight I looked out the window and was shocked to be able to see the Stuart Highway and I could see trucks and cars travelling along it. You never fly anywhere near low enough to be able to see such things.

Just as I was starting to get worried about that the pilot spoke over the PA system, he said that he'd found a favourable jet stream at 23,000 feet and we should get to Adelaide on time. We ended up in Adelaide about 15 minutes early, what's normally a 4 hour flight took only 2. And think of how much fuel he saved doing that too.