Goose Gun?
The ABC article on Amazon drone delivery project discusses the general privacy unease that drones cause in the US, which has ratcheted up since the Snowden revelations.
Knowing my local community, the discussion will be about how much gun you need to take one out. Obviously a 10 gauge shotgun with a 36-inch barrel will do the job, but it is too much gun? Then there is the selection of pellet size and spread pattern. These things are important to real hunters.
I don’t see drone delivery as a realistic system in the US, but there is a company in Australia hoping to use drones to deliver text books to isolated settlements, if they can get flight clearance.
Personally I’m against drone flights in the US because of flight safety issues. Even the remotely piloted drones used by the military lack the situational awareness necessary for collision avoidance in crowded airspace. I was in entirely too many incidents when flying out of Offutt AFB in Nebraska involving collisions with geese, to wish anything heavier and harder be added to the airspace that lacks the ability to sense a threat and get out of the way.
December 4, 2013 8 Comments
