{"id":64649,"date":"2017-09-29T05:15:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T10:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64649"},"modified":"2017-09-28T21:23:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:23:46","slug":"dawn-of-the-doakes-droning-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64649","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Of The Doakes:  Droning On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Army helicopter flying over Staten Island <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/Blackhawk-Helicopters-Drone-Hit-NYC-Staten-Island-446994923.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had a mid-air collision with a quad-copter (which the media calls a drone).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Civilians are supposed to fly them lower than 400 feet but since there\u2019s no altimeter, that\u2019s hard to gauge.\u00a0 The helicopter claims they were slightly above that altitude and maybe they were.\u00a0 The article expresses alarm because bits of the drone wreckage nearly made it into the transmission housing, could have caused catastrophic failure and crashed the helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal response, of course, will be to ban anybody from flying anything that might interfere with helicopters, <a href=\"https:\/\/yuneecpilots.com\/threads\/drone-hits-blackhawk-helicopter.9794\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">despite the fact that responsible operators know the rules and where to fly<\/a>.\u00a0 But Amazon will be sold out in a matter of minutes, as soon as Sheik Mohammad realizes he can bring down Blackhawks with $100 drones operated by children.\u00a0 The skies above conflict areas will be swarming with them.\u00a0 Maybe we need a more robust solution?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe more, smaller drones to bring the bigger drones down first?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Army helicopter flying over Staten Island had a mid-air collision with a quad-copter (which the media calls a drone). Civilians are supposed to fly them lower than 400 feet but since there\u2019s no altimeter, that\u2019s hard to gauge.\u00a0 The helicopter claims they were slightly above that altitude and maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64653,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64649\/revisions\/64653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}