I lucked out and got to be present at a couple of chicken cannon tests. One on a fighter canopy. One into a jet engine running at 100%.
That equipment is made to withstand 500MPH bird strikes.
I don't know where you are getting your information, but GPS isn't inch accurate, and there are cheaper, much cheaper ways of achieving your stated objective.
Even cooks know that.
/johnny
Tell that to the passengers of US Airways Flight 1549.
Think you just overplayed your hand.
“That equipment is made to withstand 500MPH bird strikes.”
The extensive history of bird-strike crashes disproves this.
If two Canada geese could bring down a KC-135 (Yukla-27) on the runway getting sucked in right at VR and kill all on board with no pilot error (they were had no chance) and Sully Sullivan’s plane could be brought down by those same birds as a more recent example at higher altitude, then I expect that well placed mini-helicopter drones in the turbofan could knock them out.
Here is a link to the Yukla-27 data recorder transcript:
http://aviation-safety.net/investigation/cvr/transcripts/cvr_yukla27.php
Here is the crash report:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19950922-0
Actually my research shown at the link in my tag line shows that a 747 was destroyed as a result on ingesting a kestrel, a truly tiny bird!
At my website I discuss how a 9 foot turbofan could be a gigantic target for a terrorist and I show a video if a mini-helicopter maintaining precise GPS controlled three-dimensional positioning...in a stiff crosswind to boot! The new enhanced GPS autopilots are extremely accurate...well within the diameter of a big jet turbofan.