[Senator Pardek]

One word: espresso.

[elhombrelibre]

Can you elaborate a bit?

[bitt]

what are you saying - that the pilot was hit with a lazer beam?

[WorkingClassFilth]

This is weapons sighting stuff, right?

[AdamSelene235]

Only country I know that has that hardware (for lazing bomber pilots) was the Soviet Union.

Nyet.

You can buy necessary equipment on Ebay for a couple hundred bucks.

[spyone]

Soviet freighter did this to a pilot(commercial) over Puget Sound between USA and Canada a couple of years ago.

[Vision]

What does lazed mean?

[Titan Magroyne]

To elaborate, that means he was injured when a laser was aimed at his eyes, right?

[TBarnett34]

First they stuned my beeber, now they lazed it! The horror!

[xm177e2]

Wasn't this (blinding pilots in a cockpit with a laser beam) in a Clancy novel?

[pgkdan]

What in the world are you talking about?

[smith288]

[pepperdog]

I heard the same report. I think they said the injury was to the pilot's eyes. They did say the plane landed safely at SLT but did not mention where it came from.

[Quix]

WHOA!

I would assume it would have to come from satellite or a higher aircraft???

Getting flakey out there, folks!

[Lancey Howard]

I just heard this on Greta's show when she was talking to Bill Gertz. Bill said that the pilot had to be treated for eye injuries. If planes can get knocked out of the sky by ground-based lasers, there's a big, big problem.

[FairOpinion]

Actually it was Bill Gertz, who said it on Greta's show.

[Kirkwood]

Some telescopes (including untold numbers of amateur scopes) have lasers mounted on them. The laser spot can be used either for alignment or for tracking atmospheric aberrations in order to correct them with adaptive optics. Some lasers systems are also used commercially for sky-writing.

[Dysart]

This should clear it up per dictionary.com:

v. lazed, laz·ing, laz·es
v. intr.

To be lazy; loaf: laze around the house.


v. tr.

To spend (time) loafing: lazed the afternoon away in a hammock.

[Leroy S. Mort]

The word is "lased".

The most publicized alledged incident of lasing occured in 1997. The officer involved subsequently lost a law suit over the incident.

[blackdog]

A pilot inside a commercial jet doesn't even have a forward view during straight and level flight. Maybe out the side window, but nothing but cockpit panel out the front. In order to effectively laze into the cockpit, you'd have to be in a position above the airplane.