Did anyone see the news today about US plot to blow up the pentagon usin RC planes!!!

[hicks451]

What do you think about the plot and do you think it will affect us in any way? I would like to know what you think?

[Voodoo]

I don't think that this will affect us, because there are a lot of crazy people out there. And people forget very fast especially what it's broadcast by the news.
What did you ask - sorry forgotten.
:-)

[WildWake]

[COLOR=#222222]They have not banned Rucksack's, so I don't think they'l ban rc aircraft[/COLOR]

[jwatts007]

We have had shoe bombers, underpants bombers, and now rc plane bombers, are theses people for real...............

[the doc]

[QUOTE=hicks451;723828]What do you think about the plot and do you think it will affect us in any way? I would like to know what you think?[/QUOTE]

Posted last night.

[url]http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/main-discussions/65711-bugger-finally-happened.html[/url]

[Sesame]

ah, but who gave them their 'A' certificate.

[Disc]

Okay....

You saw the model they were going to use... Wrong model type straight away....

If you were going to do it you have to think a bit more about it than they did :)

[JohnJ]

Just been reading the comments from general public about this story, basically they're laughing at the very concept!
People who know nothing about RC aircraft have figured that an RC plane couldn't carry sufficient payload to do very much damage and that this is almost certainly the US authorities trying to convince gullible people that they are winning their war on terror!

A far more dangerous candidate is the person who flies a heli in public space without regard for other people!

[Angelos]

A model plane is not going to carry an awful lot of explosives to make any serious damage and any regulations on model flying wouldn't have prevented it. A person who is prepared to commit terrorism wouldn't be deterred if it was illegal to fly his model plane in a certain manner.

The reality is that high explosives are very hard to come by without causing suspicion which is why terrorists use fertilisers etc and you need a car load of that stuff to make any serious damage. The payload of a model plane may manage to make a crack or even a small hole on a wall but won't cause any serious structural damage.

-Angelos

[ChrisB]

Where theres a will theres a way.

[moyesboy]

The public obviously do not appreciate how little difference there is between what is available to the military and what can be bought mail order and assembled for a few hundred quid.

Look at the Raptor .90 on youtube firing live rounds.
Look at the FPV on youtube that the guy flies out of his Brazilian tower block window and then back in through the window where he catches it in a net.
Remember the guy who went to prison for flying his FPV very close to an airliner in Australia.

We can't keep pretending to the authorities that the bulk of us are still flying balsa sticks powered by elastic bands - though the BMFA do their best on that!

I think we have to look out for odd people with wierd motivations joining our flying clubs!

[Angelos]

[QUOTE=moyesboy;723997]I think we have to look out for odd people with wierd motivations joining our flying clubs![/QUOTE]

"Excuse me mister, how far will that go? How much weight can it carry?" :suspicion:

-Angelos

[bolders]

I think any regulation to the RC hobby (which I think is unlikely tbh) would be pretty useless anyway. If these people can get hold of sufficient quantities of C4 then I think access to RC models is the least of their worries.

[JohnJ]

When I read this story I saw instantly that it was absurd in its theory, BUT and this is the problem with airing these tales, it did dawn on me that an RC truck as in a decent sized 4x4 Buggy could carry a fair weight and pass through most main gate obstacles with ease!

The barricades etc in place are designed to stop full sized vehicles not a buggy carrying a couple of pounds of Semtex, it could easily be inside a compound or at least past the main gate before anyone could stop it!

Yes of course this is farcical but this is how ideas are formed and sometimes keeping stumm is better than blabbing about everything they try and fail with!!!

[ChrisB]

Add radioactive waste from hospitals or similar and who needs a big bang anyway.

Dirty nukes is where it's at apparently for the terrorists now and a lot of conventional explosive is not required so I think any rc vehicle threat would be taken seriously.