Railfan Technology > Drone downed by angry hawk.

http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/national/enraged-hawk-smashes-drone-ground/nhgGP/

This is probably a better place for it but there is a previous thread here...

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,3545191

K3HX Wrote:
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A software engineer at Google said the hawk decided he wasn't happy with his drone invading the airspace and knocked it to the ground.

Uh huh. While I won't dispute that statement, maybe the hawk was hungry? Couldn't get a good grab of the drone, or realized it wasn't edible, so it let it go, and the drone's overrated 3-axle gyro system couldn't handle it. :-)

Well, had the Google engineer implanted something on the hawk to invade its privacy, we would have really believed it was "angry."

I think I posted a link to a video of a police drone crashing after a mob threw things at it. Be careful out there.

This park is next to where the APRCO 2014 train crossed the James River last month.

Here in Madison, Wi., someone flew a quad copter over Camp Randall Stadium football crowd last Saturday, about 80,000. A direct violation of airspace rules, for these and other open air events there is a 4,000'/3 mi. radius (I think it is).

Yesterday in the local paper there was a story about how the authorities are trying to determine who it was that was flying it.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/on_campus/uw-police-do-you-know-this-drone/article_43bb9c00-fd80-58fd-9301-e9e9060fa732.html

Keeping it railroad on topic: the Iowa Pacific train came up from Chicago for the game. don't know if there was a connection.

at any rate, Homeland Security eyebrows must have been raised by this breach. Implications for nefarious use of quad copters by the bad guys abound.

chico

I'm relieved to know that it wasn't an angry David Hawkins.....

Barry Byington
Arlington, TX