From WBOC16 News: "
U.S. Navy drone crashed early Monday afternoon in a marshy area on Maryland's Eastern Shore, military officials said. There were no reported injuries on the ground and no damage to property.
The Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator unmanned aircraft being tested by the Navy went down at around 12:11 p.m. near Bloodsworth Island in southern Dorchester County, the Navy said in a release."
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It makes me feel a litter better about all the stuff I crash.
Hitting the ground is always the failsafe I use:)
List of manned and unmanned Air Force crashes from 2011. R/C planes just like to crash I guess, no matter how big they are.
http://usaf.aib.law.af.mil/indexFY11.html
Can you imagine how pissed the Navy was when their ARF $110m kit blew up?
They should've trained with a foamie so that they could repair it after the crash.
@Andreas: No, I think they used the **** failsafe. The one that, soon as the signal is lost, it forces it into the ground. Because you know, hitting the ground is always safer than staying in the air where there are no people, and trying to buy some time to regain control.
I wonder, was the engine still running when it hit?
That might have been the failsafe option.
I spent the last 24 hrs since I posted this blog desperately trying not to say the F-word. You know, FAILSAFE?
I bet they used a TH-9x to fly it because the Navy was too cheap to buy Futabas.
So.... What kind of failsafe do you think they used? .. Sorry, I just had to say it.. :)
One blogger renamed it to:
Bits of Airplane on Maryland Soil
Is the program named after the sound it makes when it hits the ground?
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