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When a society reaches the point that it is willing to put a 19 year
old kid in a humvee in a foreign country and order him to drive down a road where he will be shot at, or blown up, while at the same time the 50 year olds who put him in that humvee are fleeing like rabbits because someone in a spam can Cessna got within ten miles of them, then it is clear that 'insurgents' have won the war even if the battles still go on... So I understand you didn't care for FDR and Truman for the same reason? How many of those 50 year olds knew it was a C150? None! The capitol police were running around and shouting as though a nuclear warhead was on its way. Lets see if and how the authoritys ask how it is the nations capital was disrupted for such a small aircraft. Also how is it that a small plane can get withen 3 miles. Surely a jetliner flying almost 5 times faster could have made it all the way. |
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If I were a terrorist I would squawk a random number.
That way the conrollers would think it was simply an airliner that didn't get entered in the system. |
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In article .com, Sport Pilot wrote:
Even a dirty bomb blown up a thousand feet over the capital, would stop the government for weeks. Unlikely; I'm sure the government has a disaster recovery plan. There's no reason why they couldn't assemble elsewhere. Even fairly small businesses usually have a disaster recovery plan to allow them to continue to operate in the case that their main facility is out of action. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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Maybe [they squawked VFR] to not call attention to themselves for as long as they can.
To not call attention to themselves, terrorists would get a regular squawk code, flight following, and all that stuff, as if they were passing through or going to one of the airports on the other side of the ring. Then, at the last minute, they turn the transponder off, dive past redline towards the target, and deliver their message. Ok, that's still five minutes in a 150, maybe long enough to decide to tell the President that his ride is waiting. Jose -- Money: what you need when you run out of brains. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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....as for the smallest nuclear fission bomb made by the US, here's a web
page with some nice photographs of the Davy Crockett (and other information). http://www.brook.edu/FP/projects/nucwcost/davyc.htm -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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Sport Pilot wrote:
Even a dirty bomb blown up a thousand feet over the capital, would stop the government for weeks. Actually, it would just displace it. There have been contingencies for the congress operating outside of the Capitol building (and it's adjacent office buidlings) since the cold war. A dirty bomb set off in the places you can still drive a SUV around the capitol would accomplish the same thing. No F16's come after me when I drive my monster truck up Capitol Hill. |
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Denny wrote:
The frantic flight yesterday of the people in the Whitehouse and the Congress only validates the beliefs of those who are willing to die for their cause, that we are weak, godless, and have surrendered the right to exist... Gimme a break man. From their perspective, all they knew is that there appeared to be an imminent threat. What possible good would have come from just standing around in the capitol building waiting to be possibly obliterated. It's not like they could have fought back. There are situations where people running away can be called cowardly and weak, but this ain't one of them. To sit there and wait when there's not one thing that they could've personally done that would've helped would have just been stupid. |
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On 12 May 2005 07:04:35 -0700, "Sport Pilot" wrote
in .com:: Also how is it that a small plane can get withen 3 miles. Apparently the ADIZ and Prohibited airspace only keeps the law abiding out, not the sinister and stupid. Surely a jetliner flying almost 5 times faster could have made it all the way. That is a reasonable assumption given the facts in this case. |
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"usedtobe" wrote in message
... even a c150 can carry a small nuclear bomb So what? If you can get "a small nuclear bomb" to the airport and load it in a C150, you could just drive it to your target. Cars stream into DC every day, but no one panics about those for some reason. |
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