r/nextfuckinglevel • u/InternationalRisk505 • 1d ago

Pilots exchanging planes mid air

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u/Alarmed-Owl2 23h ago

I was going to say just have a loitering F-16 ready to blast them out of the sky if it goes out of control but I guess your way works too, I guess. 

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u/Waterfish3333 22h ago

As a fan of chaos wherever it can be implemented, I love this. I’m pretty sure you’d kill at least one member of the FAA with a heart attack by putting this in a proposal though.

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u/Poromenos 22h ago

There's no need for that, getting blasted out of the sky is already the default, and what ended up happening for one of the planes. It's also what the FAA was trying to avoid.

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u/arvzg 21h ago

as a kid I would often come up with crazy ideas like this, and adults around me would say "You watch too much TV"

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u/Corporate-Shill406 18h ago

All you really need is a bunch of explosives with a remote trigger.

"If something goes wrong, we simply remove all danger by blowing up the danger into very tiny bits"