Newark airport halted all flights after 2 drones spotted flying nearby

It’s a witch hunt!

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“Industry experts, however, are pushing back against the reports. The objects could have been balloons, plastic bags or space junk”

Let’s go with “space junk”… sure we will …

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3,500 feet is over a kilometer up. The time/power for that ascent is a battery-killer for a drone, with not much power left to linger and then make a controlled descent.

“There’s certainly cases of knuckleheads flying drones where they shouldn’t be, but we have strong reservations on [the Newark] report,” he said. “There has been case after case after case of someone who saw a drone in the air that turned out to be a bat or a balloon or a plastic bag.”

How bloody big are their bats??

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