“You can sit anywhere you can see a runway and fly a model airplane into a jet taking off. After a while you’ll get good enough to get it into the suction stream of an engine. That would kill an engine. Now, add a bit of explosive.”
I vaguely knew a guy in high school back in the 1970’s whose family farm was near the edge of DFW airport. He got drunk in his pickup and started trying to shoot out the running lights of aircraft that were taking off. He must have gotten close enough with a shot that someone noticed because the county sheriffs and Grapevine city police were there pretty fast
He might be out of jail by now
“He got drunk in his pickup and started trying to shoot out the running lights of aircraft that were taking off”
I had an uncle who used to fly a single engine plane all over the country. Periodically, over forty some odd years of flying, he’d find a bullet hole or two in the wings or body. He generally didn’t know when it happened. People are idiots.