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ORIGINAL: HoundDog


<h1>Rezwan Ferdaus of Ashland sentenced to 17 years in terror plot; plotted to blow up Pentagon, Capitol</h1><span style=''font-size: medium;''>If U follwoed this last year it was years in the making and the Authoritys provided this guy with the Fake Explosives and Financed the purchace of the model he was going to use ...
The AMA is our best chance of NOT being lumpd in with DRONES.</span>

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Between May and this month, Ferdaus also ordered and acquired a $6,500 remote-controlled aircraft, an F-86 Sabre, that he kept in a rented storage facility in Framingham, Massachusetts, that he maintained under a false name, authorities said. He also planned to use other remote-controlled models of military aircraft, authorities said. The models he planned to use are about one-tenth the size of the actual aircraft.

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ORIGINAL: combatpigg

Aren't you the same guy who just demonstrated that since you were able to fly a line of sight demo inside a football stadium that no possible harm could come to a crowd filled stadium with a drone flown by someone else.?

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ORIGINAL: combatpiggAre you saying that you MUST have more than a ''room temperature'' IQ to fly an RC model equipped like a drone to carry out some evil deed...?

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ORIGINAL: littlecrankshaf

Yes, to fly, assemble and afford...

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ORIGINAL: combatpigg


I don't claim to know how clever this guy was, but somehow you do.
It's not possible to know how resourceful a single person or a group of people has to be.... to be able to make this ''plug & play'' stuff .....useful.
Expertize when needed can also be hired or sourced through the equipment vendors themselves.

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ORIGINAL: combatpigg

It doesn't always need to some diabolical, ''evil deed doer'', either.
Just some over enthusiastic, Joe Blow type guy trying to have more fun than what the AMA says that he should be allowed to have.

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ORIGINAL: littlecrankshaf

Ok... I'll concede your point...he was probably a pretty bright guy...happy now?

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2.) Anything other then flying in circuts with a plane like mine should be banned.

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ORIGINAL: Sport_Pilot

<div> How bout those terrible cameras! Should we ban those? Maybe require a license for condom use. Ration ground beef, its bad for you. No maybe ban it completely. Let's not forget those large soda's. We should stop all DUI's by banning alcohol. Wait did we not try that before? How did that work out? Now that we banned everything you didn't care about because you didn't use them, then we should ban tattoo's, cause its bad for you. Motorcycles, because they are dangerous. Cars because they use too much gas. Hamburgers because they are bad for you. On and On an On and On.</div>

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ORIGINAL: Sport_Pilot

<div> How bout those terrible cameras! Should we ban those? Maybe require a license for condom use. Ration ground beef, its bad for you. No maybe ban it completely. Let's not forget those large soda's. We should stop all DUI's by banning alcohol. Wait did we not try that before? How did that work out? Now that we banned everything you didn't care about because you didn't use them, then we should ban tattoo's, cause its bad for you. Motorcycles, because they are dangerous. Cars because they use too much gas. Hamburgers because they are bad for you. On and On an On and On.</div>

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ORIGINAL: joebahl


I know two young men personaly that killed two people driving drunk ,one fled overseas and turned himself in 4 years later and one went directly to jail . All four had a future and now they dont . Alot of my carpenter crew when i was a forman either had to take a cab to work ,ride a bicycle or catch a ride by others from loosing the right to drive. Drinking and driving has hurt and killed alot of people ,seeing all of this made me stop drinking 18 years ago even tho i never drank and drove when younger. joe sorry to get off the drones. joe

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ORIGINAL: HoundDog


28 years Now ... Thank GOD for Coors NA.

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ORIGINAL: joebahl

I know two young men personaly that killed two people driving drunk ,one fled overseas and turned himself in 4 years later and one went directly to jail . All four had a future and now they dont . Alot of my carpenter crew when i was a forman either had to take a cab to work ,ride a bicycle or catch a ride by others from loosing the right to drive. Drinking and driving has hurt and killed alot of people ,seeing all of this made me stop drinking 18 years ago even tho i never drank and drove when younger. sorry to get off the drones. joe

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ORIGINAL: Sport_Pilot



But banning alcohol will not stop DUI's. When they tried it lots of people got killed by stray bullets from the tommy guns. Banning drones will not stop drones either. It is too easy to buy an RC copter or plane, and strap electronics to it to convert it to a drone.

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In not one of my posts did ever i say ban them ,i said let them police themselfs in their own little or big non for proffit club. I dont want my dues money to have to protect something that is going to bring a bad light on us. Seperate them from us its two different types of hobbys in my eyes. Then they can fly around with the goggles on take goofy pictures of bridges houses or peek through their neighbors bedroom windows for all i care. joe

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ORIGINAL: joebahl

In not one of my posts did ever i say ban them ,i said let them police themselfs in their own little or big non for proffit club. I dont want my dues money to have to protect something that is going to bring a bad light on us. Seperate them from us its two different types of hobbys in my eyes. Then they can fly around with the goggles on take goofy pictures of bridges houses or peek through their neighbors bedroom windows for all i care. joe

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ORIGINAL: cj_rumley


I'll give you this, Joe, your attitude reflects AMA tradition that goes back to its beginnings. Every time something new has come along to the hobby, there has been vehement rejection from some segment of the players that perceive it as somehow threatening to their warm and fuzzy status quo.
In days of yore one did not have to be member of AMA to participate in model flying competitions and the models were powered by rubber bands. Then came the reckless scoundrels with gas engines, and the now familiar litany of rejection and cries how they would kill the hobby ensued. the gas engine modelers gained some begrudging acceptance after some strife, but with the condition that they have a special license to be issued by AMA. It's doubtful that 'gas license' did anything to mitigate the 'problem' the gas modelers represented, but it did provide for some revenue stream, and so evolved into rule #1 for enjoying model flying, possession of an AMA membership card. Some still call it a license, and are often corrected for doing so; I see no practical difference...........it's a pay-for-privilege thing no different from what most licenses have degenerated into.

At any rate, nothing new here.

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ORIGINAL: littlecrankshaf

I remember that incident...I also remembered the perpetrator didn't have the intelligence to pour piss out of a boot with the directions on the heel...The government just found some idiot to prove their usefulness... to those dumb enough to believe all the crapola...and there are plenty...

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ORIGINAL: init4fun



[8D] Hi Guys ,

I live about 25 miles away from the town of Ashland , Massachusetts , and I'd like to let you all know of the great job the local media did of not lumping ALL of us RC hobbyists in with this guy . They even went as far as interviewing a couple of local flying club members and protrayed us in a most favorable light . To see the proper reaction , blame the wrongdoer rather than the hobby at large , really gave me hope for our hobby's future . I will admit I kinda expected the sensationalist headlines like " Mini terror from the skies ! " Or some such , but they really handled the story respectfully for us .

Also , for a bit of background on the guy that was charged and convicted here , He had been involved in several , escalating events related to militant muslin activities . He made himself a target of the federal investigation , and not the other way around . He wasn't some ignorant innocent led down the wrong path by the big bad Govt. like I'm sure some will believe . He made his own bed , and now it's his to lay in ....

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