Kid;
You know I'm not going to go back through years of posts to quote you but you also know you denied any possibility of our models being classified as uav's because our models ''we not covered under FAA regulations'', which of itself was not true at the time. Go back and look for yourself in threads where we debated the functional uses of models as a form of weaponry to find the answers. In some of those you made statements that our models were too small to be effectively weaponized, and that it would require something lareger such as UAV's to generate any appreciable level of destruction. Again incorrect but understandable coming form a modeler with perhaps limited military or chemical background.
Fire up the WayBack Machine, Sherman. Lets see what KE actually said back then-
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_85...tm.htm#8573853 3/13/2009
In the short form-
Our flying models are UVs.
To operate a UV you need a FAA Airworthy Cert (and FAR entanglements) because UV are 91.1.1 Aircraft.
We may choose to operate a UV within AC91-57 to be considered a Model Aricraft, and exempted from the other requirements of AFS-400 UAS Policy 05-01 and its FAR entanglements
Its only a toy if it is being flown within the FAA AC for toys,
else its a UV and AFS-400 works it over with an ugly stick
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_80..._1/key_/tm.htm Oct-2008
This terrorism junk is all smoke & hype anyway.
It really dont matter how many lbs of explosives a model plane cn carry,
the question should be
How many people can one of these kill?
And one of the many circumstancial answers is
"2 in Hungary carrying 0lb explosives or weapons"
An unarmed .40Sport plane flown by a terrorist can maime & potentially kill someone when simply flown into a crowd of people. That makes it a swell terrorism weapon, because terrorism isnt about accomplishing tactical damage, it is about making folks afraid there will be tactical damage. All they need to do is have 10 terrorists in 10 states fly a 40sport each into a group of people and claim responsibility, and the media will do the terrorists work for them.
no mater what the weight self regulation does work
It only "works" if no manufacturers will sell a Senior Telemaster or Kadet to a guy without proper ama credentials... which are not needed for
a small big plane that can carry the extra weight of a camera & 100ammo 22rifle & trigger servo.
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=6244592 R/C a terrorist weapon - 8/16/2007
No, the bad part is that folks consider their own 10 year old kids as a cheaper & more accurate explosives delivery vehicle.