Subj : Re: Up, Up, and away, in
To : Moondog
From : Gamgee
Date : Sat Feb 04 2023 08:08 pm
-=> Moondog wrote to Gamgee <=-
> MR> exactly. very pathetic.
> MR> too bad nobody flew a drone up there to pierce it or something.
> Can you tell me where I can buy a drone that can fly up to 60,000 feet
> altitude? Thanks.
>
> Oh, and it's gotta have a "piercer" on it too.
Mo> Commercial GPS modules are limited by the gov't regarding
Mo> operation range. hy are restricted in speed and altitude. They
Mo> don't want home brew guided mnissiles.
Mo> 20 years ago a New Zealander made aclaim it is possible to build
Mo> a cruise missile for under $15000 at the time, and he wasn't
Mo> taken very seriously. He started a build log, leaving out
Mo> technical stuff to a minimum. When he scheduled a flightplan
Mo> with the New Zealand version of the FAA, they took him seriously.
Mo> And so did the US. He sells high end model planes and he was
Mo> restricted in selling certain technology to customers in the
Mo> Middle East. In order to function with commercial GPS chips, he
Mo> kept his flight plan to lower altitudes and lower speeds. In
Mo> stead of making a mach 4 missile he made a WWII style pulse jet
Mo> similar to a V-1 rocket. It would fly along at 300-400 mph and
Mo> fly a level course along several waypoints (low altitude object
Mo> avoidance, fly below radar.)
Cool story. Not sure what it's got to do with the topic under
discussion..., but still cool.
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