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Spy Drones Swarmed Langley Air Base, Pentagon Unable To Counter Threatwww.zerohedge.com/military/spy-drones-swarmed-langley-air-base-pentagon-unable-counter-threat
212 sats \ 14 comments \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 15 Oct conspiracy
The takeaway here is that this is an amazing display of incompetence by the military and federal government as those in the highest levels of power focus on a disastrous "woke" agenda that is weakening the nation from within.
And here you thought the military and intelligence community were here to protect us! When will we get something for our money? Who are they protecting, only politicians and deep state?
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20 sats \ 13 replies \ @rebel_nomad 15 Oct
I've worked with drones & regulations, it was a great project until fucking Murdoch of all demons bought the company we were doing this consultancy work for...
That will soon be 8 years ago now, and even back then I could have been very dangerous if I wanted!
Hell, I've been wondering why RC models haven't been used for very nefarious purposes since back in the mid eighties, even back then you could do more or less the same as now...
Now we're at the point where its gonna be a real thing, expect most countries & actors to catch up within years!
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10 sats \ 12 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 15 Oct
That is strange, in the mid-'70s, I was flying RC airplanes in the local area. I really enjoyed making them, too. The only problem, was when you used shrinking plastic to cover the plane, if you crashed, you had a really neat bag of puzzle pieces to put back together.
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20 sats \ 11 replies \ @rebel_nomad 15 Oct
We've got that in common too, then!
Its easy to build in balsa with some hardwood added, I might do a lightweight PC case soon, tired of traveling with laptops that break constantly, so why not ship the compact Dell I've got in the checked in luggage? ;-)
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20 sats \ 10 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 15 Oct
Always that first flight was full or excitement. Did I build everything correctly and straight? I was lucky in that.
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10 sats \ 9 replies \ @rebel_nomad 15 Oct
What was real hard with the drone project was controlling them with all the gyros off haha...
Managed to at least bring them down in a controlled way after wrecking & patching them up a number of times, and brought that into the flight manual.
Dealing with the national agency for aviation regulations actually was great, and so far the only bureaucratic process ever that made sense to me haha!
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0 sats \ 8 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 15 Oct
I never flew helicopters or "drones". I only flew fixed wing aircraft. I had biplanes, pylon racer types an one, count it, one flat winged starter .25 aircraft.
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10 sats \ 7 replies \ @rebel_nomad 15 Oct
Me neither, until a year or two before that project. Had to look into drones since I was running both a B2B photography & later video production company, and also a shared studio space.
It was fun, and almost made it into the whole field, but organizational treachery and BS kinda strangled it in the end...
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10 sats \ 6 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 15 Oct
Yes, the BS has a large tendency to strangle good things in the crib.
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