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    #11
    Originally posted by BR14 View Post
    more fecking thread pollution.
    A little Christmas gift for you.

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      #12
      Originally posted by Hobosapien View Post
      Update: Situation still ongoing and flights disrupted while runway closed until at least 11am.

      Gatwick Airport: Drone sightings cause delays - BBC News

      Drone seen at 7am, ongoing since 9pm yesterday, so not just some kids or local numpties, too persistent.

      Police still not tracked culprit(s) down. Shows a lack of preparedness for such an incident to not be resolved yet, giving others incentive to try similar.

      Updated update: Around 10,000 passengers directly affected and other advised not to travel as planes grounded. Those opportunist taxi drivers charging e.g. £600 for a trip from Cardiff to London are going to do well out of the chaos as planes get diverted all over the place and people desperate to get to London for crimbo.

      Two out of the three drone scares at Heathrow turned out to be actual police drones. Considering there are already anti- drone drones on the market, I am surprised that airports do not have them.
      "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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        #13
        Originally posted by BR14 View Post
        more fecking thread pollution.
        Yep you came on

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          #14
          It will be some activist campaign group filled with public school types who want to get their list of grievances on the front of the papers.

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            #15
            Originally posted by minestrone View Post
            It will be some activist campaign group filled with public school types who want to get their list of grievances on the front of the papers.
            Any regional airports struggling due to Gatwick?

            110,000 people due to use Gatwick today. That's a lot of disrupted travel plans. Sat around airports for hours on end is soul destroying at the best of times.
            Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down. Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.

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              #16
              Originally posted by Eirikur View Post
              Yep you came on
              Piss off you stupid cloggy twat

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                #17
                Originally posted by BR14 View Post
                Piss off you stupid cloggy twat
                Stop the thread pollution racist bigot

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by Hobosapien View Post
                  Surely consumer drones use a frequency for remote control that is not interfering with airports or aircraft so just jam that frequency around the airfield border.

                  Also, if planes are built to withstand bird strikes then surely a small plastic drone ain't going to do as much damage as a frozen turkey or whatever they use to test such things.

                  I therefore feel this is not a technical problem but more of typical governing/management slowness to implement workable solutions in practice. This incident should at least speed that up somewhat.

                  Strange that flights were suspended for a while at around 3am but when re-started at around 4am the drones came back, suggesting maliciousness or indeed terrorism.
                  Depends if they are carrying any package

                  https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/previ...4525519804.mp4
                  How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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                    #19
                    Wouldn't happen on Boris Island.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by minestrone View Post
                      It will be some activist campaign group filled with public school types who want to get their list of grievances on the front of the papers.
                      So the IPSE CC then....

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