Low cost cruise missile
[A few years back, on this list, Lucky Green and I discussed the creation of a competition for low-cost self-guided planes. We postulated that even back then it was a practical undertaking for advanced composite general aviation kit builders and radio control hobbyists. To pass legal muster, the building and design of prototypes can be undertaken as single passenger experimental vehicles with the human payload replaced by other payloads when desired. Save the construction plan page content before its purged.]] A New Zealand home handyman's bid to construct a cruise missile in his shed has made global headlines, and the British media have dubbed him a threat to world security. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/05/1054700311550.html http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/cruise.shtml "A Jobless Recovery is like a Breadless Sandwich." -- Steve Schear
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Steve Schear wrote:
A New Zealand home handyman's bid to construct a cruise missile in his shed has made global headlines, and the British media have dubbed him a threat to world security.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/05/1054700311550.html
the register has a fun page about cheap UAV / drone widgets... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/29933.html i've been to more than one lan party / geeky caffeine klatsch where we pondered what happens when people start making flocks of drones carrying ... unpleasant things. wondering how big or small of an EMP you could carry around in a drone. wondering if you could maybe set a mostly-styrofoam drone to orbit for a few days or weeks soaking up the sun, charging its batteries before showing up for work somewhere. a few thousand feet up, an albatross-sized craft would scarcely be noticeable. CK -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
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