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To: Bigtigermike
But a recent analysis of the use of unmanned aerial vehicles found that they were twice as likely to crash as manned aircraft...

Twice as likely as almost never?

134 posted on 04/28/2010 6:30:37 AM PDT by JimRed (To water the Tree of Liberty is to excise a cancer before it kills us. TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed
Thanks.

The air-to-air mishap rate for UAV’s is 5 x 10 to the minus 4, whereas, the manned aircraft mishap rate is 5 x 10 to the minus 5. UAV’s are very safe. Post 88 has a few documents that reflect the data. Those documents are by no means comprehensive, just quickly gleaned.

147 posted on 04/28/2010 8:52:34 AM PDT by Hulka
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