Originally Posted by
flecom
yes but if 100 balloons get sucked into your engine your going to have bigger issues
Hmm, I'm thinking that for 100 balloons to present an actual hazard of being sucked into an engine, it would have to be 100 balloons moving together as a group, possibly tethered together. Barring such a mass actually making it up to the jet stream, that many balloons would present a very slow-moving target, and would very likely be tracked both visually and by ATC radar. More than likely, ample warning is going to available to all air traffic long before the balloons would present an actual hazard to flight.
Idiot-controlled lasers or spotlights, on the other hand, are both instantaneous and unpredictable, with little or no warning of the impending hazard...
Last edited by Stuka; 09-26-2010 at 19:11.
RR
Metrologic HeNe 3.3mw Modulated laser, 2 Radio Shack motors, and a broken mirror.
1979.
Sweet.....