Collaborate Disseminate
If you remember the crazy events in the winter of 2018 as two airports were closed over reports of drone sightings, you might be interested to hear that there’s still …read more Continue reading The Gatwick Drone: Little By Little, The Story Continues To Unravel
It’s taken two years, but finally it’s happened. Finally a respected national mass-media outlet has asked the question Hackaday were posing shortly after the event: what evidence was there that a drone was actually present in restricted airspace?
The Guardian newspaper in the UK is the outlet looking into the …read more
Continue reading The Gatwick Drone: Finally Someone Who Isn’t Us Asks Whether It Ever Really Existed
At the end of 2018, a spate of drone sightings caused the temporary closure of London Gatwick Airport, and set in train a chain of events that were simultaneously baffling and comedic as the authorities struggled to keep up with both events and the ever widening gap in their knowledge …read more
Continue reading Justice For The Gatwick Two: The Final Chapter In The British Drone Panic Saga
Quietly released and speedily buried by Parliamentary wrangles over Brexit is the news that Sussex Police have exhausted all lines of inquiry into the widely publicised drone sighting reports that caused London’s Gatwick Airport to be closed for several days last December. The county’s rozzers have ruled out 96 ‘people …read more
Continue reading Gatwick Drone Incident: Police Still Clueless
Regular Hackaday readers will have noted a succession of stories following the reports of drones in the air over British airports and in proximity to aircraft. We’ve consistently asked for a better quality of investigation and reporting into these cases, because so far the absence of reported tangible evidence of …read more
A drone operator has repeatedly flown two (UAVs close to the runway, grounding flights at the airport since last night. Continue reading Drones shut down major international airport