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Rugby ball hits manned aircraft

It's been a while since I commented on drones but an event last week is something well worthy of a rant.

We've been constantly warned for over a decade now that "it's only a matter of time' before a drone hits a manned aircraft and brings it down with inevitable loss of life.

Despite the monotonous regularity with which this warning is rolled out by the media, the commercial aviation industry and regulators, the reality is that this simply has not happened.

The reality of the universe is that "it's only a matter of time" before anything that *can* happen *will* happen so I guess those doomsayers are right in regards to drones -- but what constitutes an acceptable amount of "time"?

I've always argued that many of our ball-sports are far more dangerous than tiny hobby drones but those claims have always fallen on deaf ears. Events of the past week however, lend huge support to my assertions.

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Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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