Could be one of these...

http://www.declarepeace.org.uk/capta...s/uavsnap1.jpg

or one of these...

http://www.darpa.mil/j-ucas/X-47/gal...s/189-359H.jpg

or one of these...

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/251/fliur3jf.jpg

As you can see, every nation is at it and they're flying right now. The big BAeS birds (Raven, Corax and soon Teranis) are flown at Woomera (the old British space program testing ground), Australia. Why? Because the Campaign Against Aviation (CAA) are once again the blocker to both military and commercial UAV development flying in the UK... It makes me :yuk:

All the best

LJ

The f*cking amateur morons at ITN are still banging on about a missing turbine blade on the ten o'clock news.

It was not missing. It was there, at the foot of the turbine. One old lady said she couldn't see the blade, and that's enough for ITN to put out a story saying the blade's gone.

The Beeb at least try and get the facts right about stuff more than not (even though they often fail miserably), but ITN don't care about getting to the truth. Heaven forbid the facts should get in the way of a good story.

ITN is really, really horribly bad.

... Channel 5 are competing for the title of worst newscasters now.

They reckon the wind turbine was in Lancashire.

Unless... jesus! It's an invasion!

Head for the hills!

Lancashire's flat and Lincolnshire's got the hills, right?

Turbine damage
 

I am completely open - minded about UFO's. and have seen something I can't explain...

I am currently working with Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, trying to help catalogue over 5,000 books - AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC - with separate headings including pilots' notes .

I came across a book entitled ' Flying Saucers' and remarked, " if we've got the pilots' notes on this one we're really onto something ! "

As to the wind turbine being damaged, well anyone truly 'green' will see that they are a complete waste of time,& not green at all when one considers the production process and ALL that entails - including the workers driving to the factory, and the maintenance by Landrover or motor-boat.

So maybe this turbine - smashing UFO was not a prat from Warton or northern RAF, just an alien with a sense of aesthetic taste ( like caravans, why at least can't they paint the bloody things green ? ) ?!

LJ, please tell us how Germany, Sweden etc are less restrictive than the CAA?

On the other hand, don't bother. The vast majority of nations apply the 'segregated airspace' principle. It is only the Americans who allow manned/unmanned aircraft to mix; even then it is only in controlled airspace.

Looks like The Sun still reads Pprune.


Close encounters of the turbine | The Sun |News|UFOs

Unless of course, they know something I don't.

Can you imagine the briefing?

"Right lads, the next sortie is a 250 light-year round trip."

"Where we goin Boss?"

"Grimsby".

Stunned silence.

Gainsey,

Thank you for a coffee-ruined keyboard - at least now I understand why they don't do landaways!

Stumpy creatures with wrinkly, pallid skin wandering around Grimsby aimlessly, pointing at traffic-lights and uttering gibberish.

Would anyone notice?

Well being pedantic, if its flying and you can't identify it, then its an 'Unidentified Flying Object.
Trouble is everybody thinks Flying Saucer, but then again if you identify it as a saucer, its no longer unidentified...

If it WAS a UAV - where's the wreckage ?
A thump from a turbine blade would spoil its whole day (night?) I'd have thought ...

Well have you seen the triangular shaped delivery that arrived on the back of a lorry at Boscombe recently.......

Oh dear. Nick Pope at it again!

UPDATE: Nick Pope on tentacled wind turbine UFO - a secret Russian connection? - Louth Leader

'Nick Pope said: "Looking at the geography of the Louth area, taking in the coast, it is always possible some people could be seeing secret Russian reconnaissance aircraft, perhaps even unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Russians could have a new secret craft which they are using to probe at our defences so I think we should be looking into this, and the MOD should be involved." '

It must have been all that iced up plasma stealth dripping off and striking the turbine! :rolleyes:

TJ

According to the Telegraph in an article on what may have caused the wind turbine to break:

I doubt the last sentence, it would entail the highly unlikely event of BAe being ahead of schedule :}

I found this while having a look through the media.

'JUST over 40 years ago in a field near Newbury something ‘landed’ which caused an international sensation.

The metallic, saucer-shaped object which emitted a loud beeping noise prompted an investigation by AWE Aldermaston boffins, caused a sensation in the world’s media and triggered a tense stand-off between local police and US Air Force personnel.

The mystery deepened when several similar objects were found at sites across the south - all spread in a line along the same latitude.
Eventually, as panic began to spread over the ‘alien invasion’ a group of apprentices at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough confessed ....'

Newbury Today | Newbury's 'alien landing' reinvestigated

Remember the ?67 UFO student hoax? - Special features - News - getbracknell - Bracknell Forest Standard

Good spoof! Shame that if they tried that today they'd be tried and convicted under some Terrorist thingamy :(

Ah yes, I remember seeing the news story on the local TV - inquisitive Plod looking very worried when the saucer started bleeping at him!

A few years later, a mate at university (he'd been at BAC Brooklands at the time) told me that the hoaxers got themselves into rather deep and smelly stuff as the RAE didn't think it was very funny...

Everyone else did!

http://www.declarepeace.org.uk/capta...s/uavsnap1.jpg

Is that a new and improved V-1 Doodlebug? :E

Nein!

Es ist das EADS Barracuda. Und es ist kein doodlebug! Its Satnav is not programmed only for London....or Warsaw....it has other destination options.

First one crashed (shame). Second one is due to test in Q2 2009.

At last! An answer to the mystery!!

Matt cartoons witty political cartoons and satirical sketches - Telegraph


Ahh. the cartoon's changed so the link is not relevant any more.

Basically, it was a Matt cartoon of the bladeless wind tower with a policeman explaining 'the mystery of the Ronaldo Porsche crash'. Oh, never mind. It loses something in the telling...............