[Redwood71]

The Racer X has reached an average top speed of 163.5 mph, with a maximum top speed of 179.3 mph. But I doubt it could catch a 747 with the wing vortex behind the aircraft.

Sebastian Smith, the moron that claimed to have seen the thing, is a French press, Agence France Presse, anti Trump tool for the left. You can’t believe anything he says as it is prone to questionable.

Large aircraft like this do not land like a cessna. They go on instruments a few miles out and come in with their nose high enough they can’t hardly see the runway at all. The procedure is called ILS, instrument landing system, where the pilots and ATC people use radio beams to triangulate the craft and runway. If this guy was strapped in, the odds of him actually seeing and identifying a drone, one the size of a school desk but flatter, are very low. Guess news was short that day. So I guess if you’ve got nothing to write....make it up. Sells papers.

rwood

[deks]

Thanks for all of that information and analysis, I really appreciate it.

[Mark17]

I was an air traffic controller. Let me correct some of your statements. ALL aircraft land nose up. Touching down nose wheel first, can be hazardous to their health. Aircraft, like AF One, are on instruments, from the time they leave their departure airport, till they touch down at their arrival airport. There is never a time when they are NOT on instruments. Even a visual approach is considered an instrument approach. The most accurate approach, always has been the PAR, and Cat 11 ILS. Now, things have changed. They have Cat 111A, B and C ILS approaches. A Cat 111C ILS, is so accurate, it can put an aircraft on the runway, in virtual W0X0F conditions. It’s far more accurate than VOR, TACAN, or GPS.
In Vietnam, I used PAR, and many times, in the weather, was able to put an aircraft dead on the runway centerline. I got many compliments, and I always thought, of course I put you dead on the runway centerline, because you did exactly what I told you to do, when I told you to do it. It was not a great mystery. 👍😁

[Seizethecarp]

“But the aircraft would fly on 3.”

However, on this particular day, AF1 was a 757-200 with only 2 turbofans. If one turbofan were to ingest a drone and explode and worst case drop from the wing, this would leave only one engine with thrust on the opposite wing, and then the airframe could be highly prone to flip.

If a single drone has turned up now, drone swarms are being experimented with around the world that could be placed (parked) in the ILS glide path of AF1 in an ambush on very short notice to increase probability of a strike.

STC