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To: johnandrhonda
Our “perp” has to have a take-off area, start the engine, and fly it by line of sight while holding a transmitter.

Or you could use an I-phone feeding its video back to a computer controller operating via the cellular system.

As for bomb load, that is indeed the kicker for off the shelf remote controlled aircraft.

A well designed small aircraft with a motorcycle engine could probably deliver 100-200 pounds of explosives, but it would also need larger, not off the shelf, control servos.

In a nutshell, not at all rocket science, but not a small project either.

11 posted on 09/29/2011 2:45:12 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SampleMan

“This undated photo released by the United States Attorney’s Office District of Massachusetts (USAMA), shows a remote controlled model of the US Navy’s 1960s Phantom jet fighter that allegedly belonged to Rezwan Ferdaus, who was arrested on charges of planning to fly explosive-packed, remote controlled airplanes into the Pentagon and the Capitol in Washington, authorities said. (AFP Photo/)”

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/politics-1316124216-slideshow/remote-controlled-model-us-navys-1960s-phantom-jet-photo-212828412.html

A few pounds of Kaboomite in this one, maybe. He’d crack/puncture the exterior a bit, break a lot of windows, and piss off the guys in Humvees with .50s in the parking lot.


14 posted on 09/29/2011 3:19:28 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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