Ive always wondered if Superman (or any flying tights) would show up on radar. Is a person just too small of an object? Do drones show up on radar?
I guess i could look that last one up pretty easily if i wasn’t drinking my coffee and just scrolling.
Ironman popped up on radar in his first movie. I guess metal might make the reflective difference. So maybe the perfect stealth plane would be covered in skin.
Yes. I have had a ground unit radar operator call out a “small aircraft” in a restricted zone repeatedly that we passed over (without seeing it) repeatedly, only for it to disappear and reappear again in the same general area. It was on the third or fourth pass I noticed two large birds flying wingtip to wingtip exactly where they were saying, and disappeared when the split apart.
So the size of a bird? Maybe not. The size of TWO birds? Yes. Annoyingly so.
Ive always wondered if Superman (or any flying tights) would show up on radar. Is a person just too small of an object? Do drones show up on radar?
I guess i could look that last one up pretty easily if i wasn’t drinking my coffee and just scrolling.
Ironman popped up on radar in his first movie. I guess metal might make the reflective difference. So maybe the perfect stealth plane would be covered in skin.
Yes. I have had a ground unit radar operator call out a “small aircraft” in a restricted zone repeatedly that we passed over (without seeing it) repeatedly, only for it to disappear and reappear again in the same general area. It was on the third or fourth pass I noticed two large birds flying wingtip to wingtip exactly where they were saying, and disappeared when the split apart.
So the size of a bird? Maybe not. The size of TWO birds? Yes. Annoyingly so.
I worked in aviation for a few years. I’ve heard tons of stories about birds showing up on radar. A human size object would absolutely show up.
I was thinking about that too. But i wasn’t sure if it was a movie thing or not. Thanks.
More than skin, you need meat. Red meat.
True. You don’t want to use white or dark meat. Birds can show up on radar.