Originally Posted by
bradpaul
So a full scale passenger plane can have a near miss on landing approach (5 miles, 2300') and the FAA Traffic Control and the FAA Control Tower see and report nothing? If it was a RC model turbine jet and did not appear on radar then the DoD has wasted billions on developing "stealth" technology when they could have just asked model airplane flyers.
More and more it looks like the "unreported incident" never happened.
Stealth technology is about radar cross section. Model aircraft being much much smaller that regular aircraft are hard to see on radar. That is why the military is using drones as attack aircraft. No risk to pilots and very hard to detect.
TB said it went unreported. I am not sure that that is correct. As a general rule any close call requires a report.
I think that the FAA considered the AUVSI event a good time to mention it.