Timeline for Why are predator drones being used over civilian California?
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| Apr 21, 2022 at 18:21 | comment | added | quiet flyer | @Keegan --" It's a very tacky area " (1 : not having or exhibiting good taste: such as. a : marked by cheap showiness : gaudy a tacky publicity stunt a tacky outfit. b : marked by lack of style : dowdy.) "requiring a permit to enter" -- huh? There seems to be a disconnect here. | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 19:11 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Once I was near a supposedly civilian airport and in amongst the Airbuses, I saw a parade of C-40s, C-32s and KC-767s flying in, even a C-33, which you can't mistake for anything else! Worse it appeared some had been faked up with civilian markings. The government is up to something. | |
| Jan 9, 2017 at 11:07 | history | edited | DeltaLima♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 14, 2015 at 20:09 | comment | added | reirab | @DavidRicherby While in this case it appears to be test flights, IIRC, (unarmed) Predators are actually used domestically from time to time by law enforcement, border security, and other such situations (including forest fire monitoring) where their ability to loiter on target for a long time to surveil an area is useful. My favorite article on this topic was when Arizona had requested more of them to patrol the border... the article was named Aliens vs. Predators. :) | |
| Aug 15, 2014 at 18:40 | vote | accept | Keegan | ||
| Jun 26, 2014 at 0:27 | comment | added | CGCampbell | Ahh, I don't know much about the whole lifestyle, my job would not let me ever indulge, even if it were Federally legal. | |
| Jun 25, 2014 at 18:49 | comment | added | jwenting | @CGCampbell it's legal here to have up to 5 plants, police do the flights regularly because many people end up turning their attics into professional greenhouses, complete with high power lights, dripfeeding water systems, and CO2 injection, all without proper electrical wiring and often with stolen electricity (and growing dozens of plants that way). Just in the last few months they rolled up at least 2 operations within about a quarter mile of where I live that way. | |
| Jun 25, 2014 at 12:50 | comment | added | CGCampbell | @jwenting Well, currently medical marijuana is legal (so it can be grown legally) in 20 states, incl. the OP's) and it is legal for recreational use in 2. Of course that would not stop the Federal government from performing those type of flights. (and yes, I understand that medical m. use would not need a field or fields worth of pot. :) ) | |
| Jun 23, 2014 at 7:11 | comment | added | jwenting | And worse, assuming that such surveillance would be useless. I can see definite benefits of using UAVs with IR scanners for detecting things like marihuana groweries (right now manned helicopters are used for that, UAVs would have more endurance, lower cost, and be less noisy). | |
| Jun 22, 2014 at 13:56 | comment | added | David Richerby | You're making a huge leap from "I saw a Predator flying" to "The Predator was on a surveillance mission against the American people." | |
| S Jun 22, 2014 at 10:04 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Copy edited. Added some context.
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| Jun 22, 2014 at 9:38 | answer | added | Mark | timeline score: 19 | |
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| Jun 22, 2014 at 2:15 | comment | added | Farhan | Similar incident: aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/7426/… | |
| Jun 22, 2014 at 1:50 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAviation/status/480528242093621248 | ||
| Jun 22, 2014 at 0:35 | comment | added | user14 | Just out of curiosity, I'd really like to see the photo. I don't doubt you, of course, but I'm interested. | |
| Jun 21, 2014 at 22:51 | answer | added | ChrisW | timeline score: 37 | |
| Jun 21, 2014 at 22:40 | history | asked | Keegan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |