[mombonn]

Interesting new tidbits, I hadn't heard that they were asking about how far it would fly on a tank of gas before. I HATE crop dusters - we have one that buzzes the house every fall.

[Bikers4Bush]

What's so puzzling about them wanting to fly something that is designed to hold a large amount of liquid?

They didn't want them to spray anthrax or any other biological or chemical hazard.

They wanted them so they could turn them into flying bombs just like the big jets. For the love of god how f'ing confusing is it?

The fact that they wanted to know how far it went on a single tank is a red flag to me that they had no intentions of making a round trip.

They were gonna fill the tanks with airplane fuel and play kamikaze.

[aculeus]

Fascinating.

Bumping for FR brainiacs' contributions.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I wonder if crop dusters were "Plan B" for flying bombs if airline hijacking didn't work out. Inquiries seem to have been made in many places in a disorganized way, by stupid rather than clever people. I bet a group of cells were flooded with the instruction to get this info and pass it back up the chain. I wonder if this thought has occurred to anyone in the know. I would think about going after every Sam and checking out their comings and goings, and their associates.

An alternate thought is to use them as dusters--maybe it is possible to alter droplet sizing with minor pressure and orifice changes. Maybe its nigh-impossible (as I hope). I dunno.

[Shermy]

"Were terrorists planning to spread anthrax from a crop duster? That would be very difficult to do effectively, because anthrax droplets need to be small enough to float, and crop dusters are designed to spray droplets that don't."

Assumptions: The terrorists were informed enough to know that the crop dusters would not do this "effectively." Terrs would not do it because it would be "difficult." Terrs would not have knowledge to make it more "effective."

[Lady GOP]

There is a govt owned cropduster which has been missing since 10/1.

[Lazamataz]

!!!!

I have an idea!!

Nuclear waste dispersal.

[SGCOS]

On the bright side of the 9-11 attacks, we are no longer subject to those damn annoying planes pulling advertising banners over major sporting events.

Damn they were a pain in the butt.

[Roger_W_Isom]

Here's a frightening THOUGHT.... Could OBL Loonies have SOMEHOW found a why to AEROSOLIZE EBOLA????? Now THAT a TRUELY frightening Thought!!!!

[jws3sticks]

Here's you know who, practicing. Get out the SAMs.

[Joe Boucher]

Lets look at this in a different manner, what if you weren't going to use say bacterialogical, but insted maybe gas or kerosene. crash into michigan statium on a sunday afternoon and ?? There are many ways to use an ag plane as a weapon and it doesn't have to be used only when the wind isn't blowing or too humid or too hot.

[Texas Mom]

Interesting new tidbits, I hadn't heard that they were asking about how far it would fly on a tank of gas before. I HATE crop dusters - we have one that buzzes the house every fall.

Crop dusters are some of the best stunt pilots there are. There is a company not to far from where I live and we see them all the time. Even when they aren't dusting. Just out for a fun flight. We take our lawn chairs out and watch the show. They are good. That could have been some of the interest of the terrorists..