[Travis McGee]

There are far easier ways to bring down an aircraft than trying to do it with a .50 caliber rifle.

Name one. even building a bomb with a barometric initiator would be tougher than getting a Barrett and making a head on shot when the jet is at liftoff.

[TheRealLobo]

There are many methods that would be EASIER than a shot that doesn't cause the engine to fail until 4 minutes into the flight. Which part of the engine would you have to hit to make it do that? You completely blew off this part of my post.

BTW, and FWIW, barometric initiator is NOT required. A timer, a remote control, or a delay switch, a couple of batteries, a blasting cap and the shaped charges stolen from the locker in Houston is all that is needed.

YOU proposed that shooting it down would be EASY, show me what part of the engine you need to hit.

[Cachelot]

Name one. even building a bomb with a barometric initiator

Hmmm.. know what a limpet is? Think it might be possible to adapt something like that for a plane instead of a ship? Think it might be possible to reach it with a radio signal?