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 | | From: | AES/newspost | | Subject: | Re: Man Charged With Aiming Laser at Aircraft | | Date: | Sun, 09 Jan 2005 10:46:58 -0800 |
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 | In article <1105158843.008554.51570@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
comozo@joimail.com wrote:
> Interesting link from the Lumalaser site showing a plane being lased.
> http://www.lumalaser.com/redbaron.htm
Is anyone else bothered by this sentence from the web page?
"Bullets normally have to lead a moving target -- to compensate for
this, the laser is mis-aimed seven degrees to the northeast using
Lasershow Designer."
(Or does it just mean that the apparatus used in the test has a built-in
"lead" so that it will work with ordinary bullets in normal operation,
and this lead, necessary in normal operation, has to be taken out for
the laser case?)
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| | From: | Repeating Rifle | | Subject: | Re: Man Charged With Aiming Laser at Aircraft | | Date: | Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:16:34 GMT |
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| in article siegman-A65A87.10465809012005@news.stanford.edu, AES/newspost at
siegman@stanford.edu wrote on 1/9/05 10:46 AM:
> In article <1105158843.008554.51570@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
> comozo@joimail.com wrote:
>
>> Interesting link from the Lumalaser site showing a plane being lased.
>> http://www.lumalaser.com/redbaron.htm
>
> Is anyone else bothered by this sentence from the web page?
>
> "Bullets normally have to lead a moving target -- to compensate for
> this, the laser is mis-aimed seven degrees to the northeast using
> Lasershow Designer."
>
> (Or does it just mean that the apparatus used in the test has a built-in
> "lead" so that it will work with ordinary bullets in normal operation,
> and this lead, necessary in normal operation, has to be taken out for
> the laser case?)
At a certain degree of ambiguity and rotten grammar, I just give up trying
to understand a post like this. I may ask a question. I often get an anwer
but not always one that lears up the original problem.
Bill
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| | From: | matthijs | | Subject: | Re: Man Charged With Aiming Laser at Aircraft | | Date: | Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:03:14 +0100 |
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| AES/newspost wrote:
> In article <1105158843.008554.51570@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
> comozo@joimail.com wrote:
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>
>>Interesting link from the Lumalaser site showing a plane being lased.
>>http://www.lumalaser.com/redbaron.htm
>
>
> Is anyone else bothered by this sentence from the web page?
>
> "Bullets normally have to lead a moving target -- to compensate for
> this, the laser is mis-aimed seven degrees to the northeast using
> Lasershow Designer."
>
> (Or does it just mean that the apparatus used in the test has a built-in
> "lead" so that it will work with ordinary bullets in normal operation,
> and this lead, necessary in normal operation, has to be taken out for
> the laser case?)
they are simulating the bulets so they use lasershow designer to create
anti-lead or better: lag. The result is that the "gunner" has to lead
the aircraft as if he was firing bullets in order to hit the aircraft.
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| | From: | Pat | | Subject: | Re: Man Charged With Aiming Laser at Aircraft | | Date: | Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:28:50 -0700 |
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| matthijs wrote:
> AES/newspost wrote:
>
>> In article <1105158843.008554.51570@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
>> comozo@joimail.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Interesting link from the Lumalaser site showing a plane being lased.
>>> http://www.lumalaser.com/redbaron.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> Is anyone else bothered by this sentence from the web page?
>>
>> "Bullets normally have to lead a moving target -- to compensate for
>> this, the laser is mis-aimed seven degrees to the northeast using
>> Lasershow Designer."
>>
>> (Or does it just mean that the apparatus used in the test has a
>> built-in "lead" so that it will work with ordinary bullets in normal
>> operation, and this lead, necessary in normal operation, has to be
>> taken out for the laser case?)
>
>
> they are simulating the bulets so they use lasershow designer to create
> anti-lead or better: lag. The result is that the "gunner" has to lead
> the aircraft as if he was firing bullets in order to hit the aircraft.
>
>
I saw a TV show on this. They are trying to figure out who shot down the
famous Red Baron. There supposedly was a soldier on the ground who
claimed to shoot at him, but at the same time he was involved in a
dogfight. I believe the misalignment is just to simulate where he would
have to have aimed the gun.
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