Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them

Post by alfalfasprout » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 10:22 AM UTC

quacked wrote: post #354

Stratoscope wrote: post #340

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A tower controller at an airport talks to planes in the air as they arrive and depart. They are in the tower so they can see the planes visually, and may also have radar available. Ground control also works in the tower, after all they have to be able to see the airport taxiways. They may also have a separate ground radar. They are only talking to planes on the ground. At a busy airport, these will be separate indivi…

Great explanation, thank you.

Post by madaxe_again » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 10:33 AM UTC

yellow_mixer wrote: post #378

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Same. I studied aerospace engineering and know that small-scale jetpack flight is possible to do, and yet I cannot help but scan for weird lighting changes or lens incongruities whenever I see a video. It's so insane to see these things.

How does this not burn his legs off?

Post by dsr_ » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 10:47 AM UTC

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It's amazing how much leverage an employer has when they have the legal right to simply fire everyone, and there is no recourse for the employees because the employer is the federal government itself. https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/05/reagan-fires-11-00...

For people who won't click, here are some salient facts: this air traffic controller strike occurred in 1981 In 1955, Congress had made such strikes punishable by fines or a one-year jail term a law the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in 1971 You don't like it? Then don't take the job. Take a job where you do have the ability to go out on strike. When you simply cater to union-protected municipal employees, you wind up wit…

Post by throwaway0a5e » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 12:02 PM UTC

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Interference with railroad property, primarily oriented towards theft and even hijacking trains, was a very serious problem for much of railroad history. Ongoing issues with everything from train robberies to theft of the actual rails is what lead to major railroads forming some of the first nationwide law enforcement organizations. The FBI, for example, was directly modeled on the Union Pacific Railroad Police. Whil…

A used rocket launcher was found next to the tracks for the transit system in Atlanta a few years back. Don't know if they ever found out how it got there but it certainly gave some uneasiness that there might be someone around looking to blow up passing passenger rail cars.

Post by throwaway0a5e » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 12:08 PM UTC

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On the contrary, you need to defend the entire length of the track at all times from an enemy who can destroy any small part of it at any time and then just leave the scene to try again later. Yes, it takes much more effort than a driver just deciding to go on a rampage, but against a determined adversary the train is at a huge disadvantage.

Derailing a train is an ordeal, though, and it's fairly easy to surveil against it. I'm fairly certain just blowing up the locomotive is less effort against modern networked rails.