[RCSE] Security issues and R/C models

[Keith]

You guys just don't get it.  Since none of you seem to realize what someone 
who has a mind to do can accomplish using an R/C model, and especially an 
electric glider, I'll tell you.

You can easily use an electric glider as an accurate targeting 
anti-personnel weapon, and it'd be very effective against a small group of 
people (think of the president exiting his vehicle in the motorcade, 
surrounded by his security people).  The types of explosives that are 
available and the materials you can wrap them can easily be carried inside 
the fuse and wings of any of our typical models.  There are tiny, highly 
accurate, gps-based autopilot systems designed to be used with R/C gear that 
are easily available for purchase from several vendors that would make 
getting the model on a fixed target fairly easy.

I get security training on a regular basis because of my job and my eyes 
have been opened to more types of small, terrorist-devised weapons than I 
ever would have thought existed, plus all the ones I learned about over the 
years my father worked to develop for the military.

If you looked at your models and started thinking of all the ways you could 
use it as a weapon, then you'd realize just how nervous any security team 
would be to have you flying around anywhere near the "asset" they are trying 
to protect!

Keith McLellan
Captain
Gulfstream III, Challenger 601
Northampton, PA 
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