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AR15.COM
8/16/2011 4:16:00 PM EDT
http://www.suasnews.com/2011/08/6480/wall-street-journal-reports-rq7-c130-midair/

This wont look good for the UAS community. I'd hate to be the pilot and mission commander, somebody is in serious trouble. I wonder who's fault it was.
8/16/2011 4:35:58 PM EDT
[#1]
Green 100 MPH tape will fix that
8/16/2011 4:38:26 PM EDT
[#2]
I helped design the parachute system for the Shadow.

8/16/2011 7:09:26 PM EDT
[#3]
Somehow "i told you so" just doesnt cut it.
8/16/2011 7:58:18 PM EDT
[#4]
I simply abhore the RQ-7 btw and I am a UAV pilot.
8/17/2011 4:44:15 AM EDT
[#5]

I've been assured repeatedly that this couldn't occur.
8/17/2011 8:18:46 AM EDT
[#6]
Quoted:

I've been assured repeatedly that this couldn't occur.


It doesn't, and I have never had a TCAS TA from a drone.  
8/17/2011 2:56:11 PM EDT
[#7]
Quoted:
Quoted:

I've been assured repeatedly that this couldn't occur.


It doesn't, and I have never had a TCAS TA from a drone.  


Actually this could be an ATC FUBAR after thinking about this.
8/17/2011 9:48:00 PM EDT
[#8]



Quoted:



Quoted:



I've been assured repeatedly that this couldn't occur.




It doesn't, and I have never had a TCAS TA from a drone.  


I've made traffic calls between drones and air carriers.



 
8/18/2011 5:26:17 AM EDT
[#9]
Sad that the name "Shadow" has already been given back out, retirement didn't last long.
8/19/2011 8:21:58 PM EDT
[#10]
"We have more than 1.3-million flying hours on unmanned aircraft systems without something like this happening," said Tim Owings of the Army's Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

HA!!! Wrong, pilots in Iraq and Afghanistan have 1.3 million hours dodging these things, ask me how I know. The general public would $h&t a brick if they had any idea how many times that this has almost happened.
8/20/2011 3:05:13 PM EDT
[#11]
Quoted:
"We have more than 1.3-million flying hours on unmanned aircraft systems without something like this happening," said Tim Owings of the Army's Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

HA!!! Wrong, pilots in Iraq and Afghanistan have 1.3 million hours dodging these things, ask me how I know. The general public would $h&t a brick if they had any idea how many times that this has almost happened.


Yeah an army blackhawk in Taji decided to cut across the feild and not radio anybody as we were landing our Scan Eagle and crunched his rotor blade, accident ivestigation found the CW3 pilot at fault but my company still had to fork over 50 grand for a new rebuilt rotor.