Originally Posted by
blind pew
Flatmate of mine whilst beating up the countryside very low and fast got a model aircraft with the intake of the hunter. The energy in a large heavy lump of aluminium at more than double the speed of an airliner on approach of take off is considerably more than an over the counter drone. It did go through the skin and take out his hydraulics but that was all. Thirty years on model aircraft are still flying everywhere and the frogs still manage to route their low level flights over my brothers club without bothering about his models flying above them. It’s politics wrt more big brother and taking our minds of the political crooks.
I don’t recall many RC aircraft of that era being a “large heavy lump of aluminium”, and whilst I take your point about relative speeds I don’t fancy finding out what a heavy, dense battery pack on a household drone will do to the Fan (and downstream components) on one of the current high bypass engines, especially when running at takeoff power.