Hi Keith, Are you back east yet? Everything you say is true but to borrow a prase from the NRA, if you ban model planes, only the terrorists will have r/c models. One of the clubs I belong to flies on the grounds of the Air Force Communications facility (antenna farm outside Washington, D.C.) that handles sensitive com. We were locked out after 9/11 – understandably - but the commander of Andrews AFB came to the conclusion that it was better to have concerned people (eyes and ears) around then not. (Especially now when are forces have been stretched so thin – Andrews AFB has replaced the Air Police at the gates with civilian contract personnel). Many of the club members are military or ex-military and have security training. Eliminating the terrorist threat is unrealistic (70 some arson related fires in the D. C. area and the police have no clues). Educated vigilant human observers are not unrealistic but a necessity.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Keith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
