Watch the news - B777 missing

[YellowDog]

And they have been on the ball since this started.

The official line is what counts. Evidence, facts, and proof mean nothing

[jonbuoy]

Mobiles have always been able to work to some extent - the main reason no one uses them in the air is possible interferance. If you hold an older mobile phone next to a powered speaker while you make or recieve a call or send a message you can hear the interferance it causes. Imagine what would happen if the same level of interferance was induced on a feedback signal from a control surface or engine sensor. Lufthansa are allowing people to connect to their onboard roaming cell now so I guess they have enough evidence that control signals wont be affected by mobile calls.

[R650R]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology...ectid=11237806

The missing Malaysia Airlines plane was "thrown around like a remote control drone" just after it lost contact with authorities in a bid to dodge radar, Malaysian military investigators believe.

Flight MH370, which disappeared more than a month ago en route to Beijing, is thought to have climbed to heights of 13,700m - 3000m above its normal altitude - before plummeting to just below 1500m.

The new lead in the investigation comes as the methodical search being carried out in the Indian Ocean continues amid fears that the jet's black box may have run out of battery.

The drastic manoeuvres which must have been taken for the plane's alitutude to change so suddenly suggest that the plane was deliberately trying to avoid radar signals and disappear, a source said.

Speaking to the Sunday Times, the source said: "It was being flown very low at very high speed. And it was being flown to avoid radar."


I'm always sceptical about any media article with unnamed sources these days, usually always turns out to be unsubstantiated. It implies they do have a record of the radar data then for some period. So thrown around like a fighter jet yet deemed a non threat...

[awa355]

I knew the Americans were behind this, see! they do have the technology

[mashman]

I knew the Americans were behind this, see! they do have the technology

FFS man, this is the 21st century. And we thought this was CGI

[Tazz]

[Jay GTI]

Faraday cage has nothing to do with blocking RF signals.

Yes they do. In fact there is most likely a Faraday cage in your kitchen, blocking the emission of electromagnet waves, otherwise known as radio waves.

A plane certainly isn't a Faraday cage however.

[scrivy]

Yes they do. In fact there is most likely a Faraday cage in your kitchen, blocking the emission of electromagnet waves, otherwise known as radio waves.

A plane certainly isn't a Faraday cage however.

A microwave and fridge......

or in your garage..... a car....

[jonbuoy]

Yes they do. In fact there is most likely a Faraday cage in your kitchen, blocking the emission of electromagnet waves, otherwise known as radio waves.

A plane certainly isn't a Faraday cage however.

No that's not a farraday cage thats RF shielding. You can sit inside a farraday cage doesn't mean your shielded from RF in any way at all.

If an aircraft is struck by lightening the metal body forms a farraday cage- it protects the occupants the charge flows safely around the metal body and down to the ground. Just like a car.

[oneofsix]

No that's not a farraday cage thats RF shielding. You can sit inside a farraday cage doesn't mean your shielded from RF in any way at all.

If an aircraft is struck by lightening the metal body forms a farraday cage- it protects the occupants the charge flows safely around the metal body and down to the ground. Just like a car.

The reception or transmission of radio waves, a form of electromagnetic radiation, to or from an antenna within a Faraday cage is heavily attenuated or blocked by the cage.

A Faraday cage will block most RF, screened rooms used in RF testing are Faraday cages.

[Crasherfromwayback]

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Bit slow with the pic Bro. Check post # 229

[jonbuoy]

A Faraday cage will block most RF, screened rooms used in RF testing are Faraday cages.

Except in an airplane, car..... Depends entirely on the cage. One thats designed for high voltage protection will do nothing to block high frequency RF. You can make an RF shielded building from fibreglass with a fine mesh laid up inside it - won´t do anything to protect you in a lightening strike as the mesh will not be able to carry the current of a lightening strike and it will jump to the nearest path to ground.

You can´t even drill a hole in a government RF shielded building without it being approved - the hole doesnt stop it forming a Farraday cage but it does stop it shielding all RF.

Bearing in mind - Faraday´s work was done in 1836 and radio waves werent "discovered" or detected for another 50 years.

[R650R]

Well even the official fable now admits the plane flew over the straights of Malacca which turn out to be the most pirate infested waters in the world.
Was watching this the other day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OsVDjOirP0 and the crew of the Emma Maersk set up high pressure fire hoses running down sides of boat and lock themselves inside for day or so whiel passing thru.
Now given how bad it is off coast of Somalia and the well publicised western military help, it stands that surely around the Malacca straights there must also be a significant presence, frigates with radar etc...

[FJRider]

Now given how bad it is off coast of Somalia and the well publicised western military help, it stands that surely around the Malacca straights there must also be a significant presence, frigates with radar etc...

Not actually the case .. two very different areas and the shipping patterns in either area are vastly different.
Somalia has no legitimate armed forces to guard against or stop piracy actions. Indonesia and Malaysia have some armed (offshore) patrol craft ... and can and sometimes do ... respond to calls for help. But that force can hardly be described as "Significant" (or even fast)

Hence ... International shipping use their own various piracy prevention methods .. as they are entitled to in international waters.

[Tigadee]

A lot fo military forces in the region look good on paper only (with the exception of the well-trained and -equipped Singapore armed forces).