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A list of interesting aircraft - Governments, Dictators, Military, Historic and just plain odd.
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planes with freakin' lazer beams #63

Closed tedder closed 2 years ago

tedder commented 3 years ago

N300WQ, a Beechcraft 300 N406SD, a Reims F406

bathymetric (ocean) lidar scanners using a visible green laser, operated by Woolpert.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42754/scanned-by-a-green-beam-of-light-from-the-sky-in-california-recently-heres-what-did-it

uses this lidar: https://www.teledyneoptech.com/en/applications/defense-and-security/bathymetry-object-detection/

kx1t commented 3 years ago

image

(Sorry, I just had to!)

tedder commented 3 years ago

exactly! watch this quick vid of it in action: https://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/1447692604653531136

rikgale commented 2 years ago

I'll see if I can get this and your other request added. SB is busy right so hopefully he'll not mind.

rikgale commented 2 years ago

Added to the main db. Will add to Gov list later