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From the united states? it didnt fly over us by accident. it was intentional. do we know what the chinese communist government was looking for? senator, we have some very good guesses about that and we are learning more as we exploit the contents of the balloon and the payload itself — 0k. what might the chinese be trying to find out? lee hudson covers defence and aerospace for politico. lee, what were these balloons doing, particularly these chinese spy balloons? so, it seems, according to th...

Offer that satellites and other techniques might not. it can be hard to distinguish where a balloon is coming from. for example, a satellite or a drone, you could say its coming from x countrys military, but with a balloon, its more benign. and so beijing tried to say that it was being used for meteorological purposes. a bit of deniability about what theyre really up to, you mean? what do we know about the chinese balloon programme, then? so, we know that they have been doing this throughout the...

Feet or even a little above. its tricky being up there. there are considerations around pilot life support and pressurisation of the cockpit. typically, aircraft are designed to operate at really extreme altitudes above that, like the u—2 spy plane or the tend to stop in terms of going higher, f—22, altitudes above that, like the u—2 spy plane or the 71 blackbird, again, spy plane. crews would wear kind of spacesuits, full pressure suits, and most jet fighters arent equipped for that. also...

And shot down earlier. but that meant in the next few days, they were now seeing many more of what were described not as balloons, but objects. if anything enters into our airspace, whether we know what it is or not, we will monitor it and well take take appropriate action. one was seen over alaska and shot down near a place called deadhorse on february 10th. the next day, another object was shot down over the yukon in canada. and then, on february 12th, a strange octagonal object was shot down ...

And soon us officials had to explain what this really was. we know that its a surveillance balloon and im not going to be able to be more specific than that. china responded by saying it was just a weather balloon that had been blown off course. the us military said they couldnt shoot it down for fear of causing debris or damage below, so it was only when it drifted across america and out over the atlantic that they eventually shot it down. the spotting of the first balloon led north american ai...

Deliberate than just releasing a balloon into the wind. and meanwhile, a satellite up in space is not seen as such a problem. but balloons are in a kind of grey area in between — and harder to spot. they also pose particular challenges to the military in working out how to take them down. i suspect theres probably a desire to find a way to deflate any potential future ambitions for using these things on a larger scale. excuse the horrible pun. professorjustin bronk is the senior research fello...

We need to look at a weather map. wind speeds vary hugely depending on how high up you are. and at the altitude where this balloon was flying, there is a very stable and predictable wind pattern between china and north america. so, what are the balloons actually being used for? the answer is espionage. they carry sensors to collect signals and data as they fly over locations. us officials are analysing the wreckage they recovered from the sea in order to try and understand what exactly those sen...

From saudi arabia or china or france. check that not france. never france. hell, chinas buying up half of america anyways, why not ask them for a few bucks. or better yet, ask them to build us a wall, theyve got a great one. hell, you couldnt even sail a balloon over it. or pitch in at the border because remember the left wanted to throw our horses in the slammer for five to ten years for being racist horses. biden lied about them using whips like they were gutfelds dominatrix. [laughter] >> tyr...

For infrastructure, we do need federal government to fix these things accept trains that go across states lines the skates cant fund themselves. but because theres so much corruption in washington, dc and lobbying and special interests those problems never get solved and its every aspect, social security, other government programs that are supposed to help specific people and they never do because they take that money and use it towards their own pet project and then they dont care about certain...

From World War I biplanes to the SR-71 Blackbird, pilots have been taking cockpit self-portraits since the dawn of human flight. These are some of the best.