Hapless birdlies' do it every day somewhere, zor....In turbine terminology it's called BASH (Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard) and on average about 65% of bird strikes cause little or no damage. A whole flock can seriously flock-up an engine though...

Looks like pilot ill-communication with ground crew or careless pilot-Guy on the ground probably didn't know the engine was about to be fired-up-There was after-all a cone in front of the right turbine already. He was cautious not to walk directly into the front of that thing, as entire humans have been sucked-into jet turbines in the history of their use...some have survived even after being spit-out the other side I've heard (though I don't believe it).

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Don't get me wrong, I'm all for this sort of defense, but did anyone else think it was a little disturbing when they talked about the debris of the shot down missile falling on the country that fired it as a plus.

That's all fine and dandy, but there is no guarantee that the debris will damage anything that will impede the enemy war machine, if anything it will probably fall on the civilians of that country. Civilians whose only crime is living in the wrong country.

Still, I hate to say it, but it's a small price to pay to stop a potential attack of large magnitude.

Now...that out of the way. what the heck powers the lasers? The jet turbines couldn't be enough could it?

>> ^dag:

Really? applications around the house?


Leaf blower, hair dryer. I could go on...

It's great how you can hear the jet turbine wind down. All that power and no way to put in on the tracks.

Can't they just back the thing up using one of the read locomotives?

thanks for the comments,
I'm not sure stability is the major issue, as compared to perhaps bad weather and choppy seas which reduce the efficiency of the air cushion underneath. I'm interesting in designing a plane thats intended to go at faster than 300km/h using a small jet turbine for propulsion. As far as i can tell very little research has been done in this area, and the shapes of plane required would be quite different to the slower speed flare wing airfische.

Anyone wanna donate a wind tunnel and 3d printer?

Still, I love the tech, being able to just cruise off land and over water, nothing but the horizon and clear blue sea... it makes me drool.

they are jet turbine

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I'm pretty sure the panels charge onboard batteries. So, you would have time to go down slowly. I guess that's the nice thing about electrics. You wouldn't have the kind of catastrophic failures as often as with a jet turbine or internal combustion engines. Brushless electric motors go a long time before failing. (Yes, I know you were kidding, but I'm a nerd)