time2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 7 days agoOn September 11, 2001, a rare exception to the total shutdown of U.S. civilian airspace was made to save the life of a snake handler in Florida who had been bitten by a deadly inland taipan.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square52linkfedilinkarrow-up1458arrow-down19
arrow-up1449arrow-down1imageOn September 11, 2001, a rare exception to the total shutdown of U.S. civilian airspace was made to save the life of a snake handler in Florida who had been bitten by a deadly inland taipan.lemmy.worldtime2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 7 days agomessage-square52linkfedilink
minus-squareFartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoI mean of course the airspace wasn’t closed to fighter jets, how else are they going to enforce it?
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 days agoTBF, ground-to-air guns and missiles exist. AKA FLUGABWEHRKANONE - even children can operate it!
minus-squarearrow74@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 days agoWe don’t have those set up across the US though. A plane with have to fly within a few miles of a military base. However you can get a fighter jet anywhere within the US airspace fairly quickly
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·7 days agoBut can a child fly a fighter jet? Checkmate, bolsheviks.
I mean of course the airspace wasn’t closed to fighter jets, how else are they going to enforce it?
TBF, ground-to-air guns and missiles exist. AKA FLUGABWEHRKANONE - even children can operate it!
We don’t have those set up across the US though. A plane with have to fly within a few miles of a military base.
However you can get a fighter jet anywhere within the US airspace fairly quickly
But can a child fly a fighter jet? Checkmate, bolsheviks.