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Wed Oct 17, 2018 10:14 am

Drone wing collision

I don’t worry bout it his much, But, I agree probably would be worse than a bird!

https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight ... sion-test/
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Wed Oct 17, 2018 3:37 pm

Re: Drone wing collision

I was curious, so I did the math.

A 9MM round exits the gun with about 500 joules of energy. A DJI Phantom hit by a jet going 250kt has about 10,500 joules of energy.
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Wed Oct 17, 2018 5:54 pm

Re: Drone wing collision

rw2 wrote:I was curious, so I did the math.

A 9MM round exits the gun with about 500 joules of energy. A DJI Phantom hit by a jet going 250kt has about 10,500 joules of energy.



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