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On another site I saw speculation it was a drone operator, but the people couldn't explain how to get a drone operator to FL30. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | ||
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A fairly blunt object to not cause any marks or piercing in the middle of the radome. A balloon of some sort? That's not a lot of damage considering the normal speed at FL300. "The Truth, when first uttered, is always considered heresy." | |||
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Was it Iron Man drunk flying again? | |||
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| Big Stack |
What bird can flap it's way up to 30K'? | |||
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ET didn't make it home this time. | |||
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I have seen birds at 15K but 30? Might be possible but doesn't seem likely. Note: flight levels are expressed as three digits, so your title should read FL300.  "I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." Thomas Jefferson | |||
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Is there anything in that nose? I'm wondering if it just collapsed due to pressure or speed. I can't imagine there being anything up there at that level that would do that. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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I would bet something like a Sandhills Crane. They can fly very high, and are migrating now. One article I saw quoted them as being documented flying over Mt Everest at 28K. | |||
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I would take the 30,000 ft. altitude with a grain of salt. Just saying... Then again, it is an NBA player that...you know...runs and plays with a ball for a living. | |||
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Maybe it was 3000 feet  My guess would be a weather balloon, provided there's no other damage. | |||
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no evidence of blood or other animal stuff - hard to say it was a bird that that altitude...a lot lower then perhaps [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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Waiting for Hachiko |
Satellite debris? 美しい犬 | |||
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Maybe the drone operator was also a high speed low drag HALO type? Apparently the record altitude for altitude for a free fall is over 132,000 feet and it took over two hours for the guy that did it to get there. He was lifted by a weather balloon. It only took him 15 minutes to get back. | |||
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That’d be Felix Baumgartner, who was replicating the original jump made by Joe Kittenger in the 60’s. | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
I though "FL30" was going to refer to a state road in Florida...little confused when a pic of an airplane with its nose bashed in showed up... | |||
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It doesn't look like an impact as the paint is all intact in the center. The only place it is peeled is where the metal really bent. I'd say either they hit a big piece of ice (like hale) or the metal was just weak in the nose cone. | |||
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Are those nose cones metal or fiberglass/some other material? | |||
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There I was.... at Angels 30, standing on the aft cargo ramp of a C-17, ready to spill a tub full of boiling water out the back on a dare, when a Boeing 757 pops up through the cloud deck below and at that moment, the tie-down straps let loose, and away went that tub... "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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A very monkulous fantasy. LOL! _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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