Originally Posted by
TimJ
That clearly is not the standard. You can not sit there and say 100%, every time, the engine will still have enough to make it back to base. Truth of the matter is,
it's a game played by the Fickle Finger Of Fate. Much like the videos I've posted in a test scenario, the engines stayed running. Much like the video I posted of a single
piece of flying FOD, the engine was severely crippled.
The argument here is pointless. What should be argued and researched is the amount of bird strikes inside and outside of a 5 mile radius of an airport. Then the amount of Model Aircraft / Multi-Rotor Aircraft strikes inside and outside of a 5 mile radius of an airport.
The standard is that flocks of small birds not reduce thrust by 25%. medium sized birds not by more than 50%, and large birds to 8 pounds allow the engine to be safely shut down.
The rest is true, but IMO the odds are that when the first airliner hit a sUAV the airliner will be able to safely land. Might not be true of Cessna 150 though.