Listen to these two rabble-rousing morons... two posts wasn't enough to contain my ire... gggrrrrr.....there are a couple of barely-relevant points, but the delivery, as any broadcast news pro will tell you, is what really sells the "slug", or story... nonsense and all.
Same method used by con artists.
  Shameless fear-mongering, complete with biased "expert" who also makes his living spouting half-baked garbage.
  Hype, spin, paint red, white & blue, repeat... and watch those ratings and book sales soar.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k51349ZPCPo

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Yeah, that's the ticket... the terror-Cessnas (piloted, of course, by Democrats or worse yet by "those people") would blow up in a big fireball with nothing but little sparkly bits of chaff floating harmlessly down... then all the Ewoks would dance.

Turned it off when he talks about North Korea going to a local airport and loading weapons of mass destruction into a Cessna. If they can't get a weapon small enough into a rocket with a couple of thousand pounds of thrust...........
Some people just like the sound of their own voice 

Matt

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So did I.

That has to be the stupidest thing ever..

here is one for mythbusters.

Myth: General aviation airports are incapable of self security and general aviation aircraft could likely cause damage to high rise buildings on a similar scale to september 11th.

How to:

get a cessna 172, load it to max gross with whatever hardware store - off the street explosives you can get, and rig the thing to be remote controlled, fly it into a tall building that is slated for demolition anyway and see what happens. I think what the viewers would likley see is that the aircraft would shatter to pieces and fall to the street below setting one or two offices afire just like we have seen here. end of story.

Rules for testing the myth:

1. The explosive materials have to be comprised of common every day items that anyone off the street can obtain.

2. The aircraft must be loaded within its operational performance envelope (im sure any evil doers would do this as well because what good is the mission if you cant get off the ground?)

3. all of the remote control modifications to the aircraft must be made on location at a GA airport either on the ramp or in a hangar WITHOUT anyone notifying the authorities to the activities. if the authorities are notified by anyone the myth is busted.

4. The explosive materials must be loaded aboard the aircraft either on the ramp or in the hangar without anyone notifying the authorities of the activity. again the myth is busted if the police are notified.

5. The myth will be confirmed only under the success of three conditions.

A. IF - The aircraft can be modified to be remotely controlled without anyone (other pilots, airport and ramp personnel etc) notifying the authorities.

B. IF - The explosive materials can be loaded aboard the aircraft without anyone notifying the authorities.

C. IF - The aircraft causes catostrophic structural failure of the building which in the opinion of at least one structural engineer would render the building irreparable OR the building is completely demolished on a scale equil to or similar to the september 11th attacks.

Ever seen how much trouble a regular MBT has with the average highrise... the average rentable GA plane wont make a chance against anything more solid than a trailerpark cabin

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T-80, T-90, Crusader II, Leopard, M1 Abrams, Leclerc...

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OK but I have no idea who Jamie & Adam are.

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Before 9/11 I don't think anyone imagined that an ordinary airliner could do that. I don't think the scale of the attack comes into it & I doubt very much that this will be attempted again. Fear is the terrorists most effective weapon. A couple of well-placed car or even personal suicide bombs could bring a city like NYC to a complete standstill & cause utter havoc for several days. They don't need the complication of using any type of aircraft.

PS. At the moment it's much easier & more effective to attack targets elsewhere. You only need to read the papers to see that.