Subj : Re: Up, Up, and away, in
To   : Moondog
From : Gamgee
Date : Sat Feb 04 2023 20:08:00

-=> Moondog wrote to Gamgee <=-

 >  MR> exactly. very pathetic.
 >  MR> too bad nobody flew a drone up there to pierce it or something.

 > Can you tell me where I can buy a drone that can fly up to 60,000 feet
 > altitude?  Thanks.
 >
 > Oh, and it's gotta have a "piercer" on it too.

 Mo> Commercial GPS modules are limited by the gov't regarding
 Mo> operation range. hy are restricted in speed and altitude.  They
 Mo> don't want home brew guided mnissiles.
 Mo> 20 years ago a New Zealander made aclaim it is possible to build
 Mo> a cruise missile for under $15000 at the time, and he wasn't
 Mo> taken very seriously.  He started a build log, leaving out
 Mo> technical stuff to a minimum.  When he scheduled a flightplan
 Mo> with the New Zealand version of the FAA, they took him seriously.
 Mo>  And so did the US.  He sells high end model planes and he was
 Mo> restricted in selling certain technology to customers in the
 Mo> Middle East.  In order to function with  commercial GPS chips, he
 Mo> kept his flight plan to lower altitudes and lower speeds.  In
 Mo> stead of making a mach 4 missile he made a WWII style pulse jet
 Mo> similar to a V-1 rocket.  It would fly along at 300-400 mph and
 Mo> fly a level course along several waypoints (low altitude object
 Mo> avoidance, fly below radar.)

Cool story.  Not sure what it's got to do with the topic under 
discussion..., but still cool.



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