Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down By USAF | Aviation Week Network
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Although the club is not pointing fingers, there are suspicions among other prominent members of the small, pico-ballooning enthusiasts community.

Rest easy fellow patriots, the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade will no longer be terrorizing our skies with their $12 pico balloons after being annihilated by our big, beautiful $400,000 sidewinder missiles.

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Mostly they avoid it by the sky being big and empty, so you’re mostly just not going to.

    But also in the US the limit is 6lbs of payload or you have to register it with the FAA. Basically even if a plane did hit one most planes would care the same amount as when they hit a bird, which is to say “not at all.”