[bbbair]

OK It is a RC Aircraft... strictly speaking... And there are questions being asked!

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2.../21594816.html

QMI AGENCY
Apr 10, 2014
, Last Updated: 11:41 AM ET

An unmanned American navy drone flew into Canadian-controlled airspace on Tuesday morning, which surprised officials who were not expecting to see it.
The drone was supposed to land in Maryland but was sent to Maine due to bad weather, Nav Canada director of public affairs Michelle Bishop said.
The area of airspace south of Nova Scotia, which is over the U.S. border but has been delegated to Canada to control, comes to a point like a triangle, Bishop said.

"(The drone) kind of clipped into the point of that airspace," Bishop said. "It was a fairly small incursion."

Nav Canada heard from U.S. authorities three minutes after the drone entered the airspace, a report says.

Bishop said the drone was flying at approximately 60,000 feet and was not at risk of encountering any commercial aircrafts.

Canadian officials will be discussing how and why the drone made its way into the Canadian-controlled airspace with their American counterparts, Bishop said.

[Max]

OMG! A violation of Canadian airspace. Shoot it down!!!!!


(j/k)

[bhughes]

They look at us like we have plastic forks and knives for weapons lol we should threw a rock at it at least lol

[Eye Can Fly]

Canada does have a different approach to security. Back when I was in the trucking game hauling explosives and ammunition I got to see the security at three different military installations.

I was told to park within 50 feet of a CF Fighter jet. But I did have a sneaky suspicion that if I got out of the truck, I would likely would have received a lead injection. The other odd one was upon arrival at a Army training Base, there was no guard at the gate. Drove right up to the Armory. It got kind of funny when the Sargent handed me a set of Super Duty bolt cutters and a goose-neck. I knew what the bolt cutters were for, I just handed him back the goose-neck, saying that I drive the truck, not pull nails out of pallets of RPGs!

[wilf]

60,000 ft really that's way up there
Wilf

[ronnieo]

And here it is......at 60000 feet...as I said before...the media and public have no clue what it is they are talking about and we are all going to pay for it in MAAC down the road...stupid people..

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews...88381481237582

[ogopogo]

not stated specifically - did we see it or they just politely let us know after the fact ?

[ronnieo]

The link I posted shows a picture of a quad that is clearly not a drone at 60000 as stated in the article, let alone 2000 feet....due to the media not aware of the true drone that is capable of those heights, they will assume this $700 Best Buy heli will be watched by the FAA as a national threat...ridiculous...and a matter of time before we all will be assumed to be flying drones in the public eye.

[wilf]

Hey being called a drone pilot is more cool than having the neighbor ask if you are going out flying that toy airplane again. Just saying.
Wilf