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Old 12-17-2015, 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Sport_Pilot
Doubffull, they are now designed to take an 8 pound bird strike and keep on going. But even if not there is more than one engine. Now GA planes is a different matter.
An 8 pound bird is made of flesh and bone, an 8 pound drone has hard plastics, metal motors and Lipo batteries that will burst into an intense hot flame when the case is breached. If you think that a jet engine at takeoff power can ingest one of these, which WILL explode when it hits the first set of blades, and shatter them like glass, and survive, then you have never seen FOD damage.