Re: New Nightmare - Model Airplanes

"Allen" <allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Finis MacGuiness wrote:

"Model" airplane afficionados have used a remote-control GPS device to
guide a commercially available airplane--weighing 29 pounds, with a
9-foot wingspan--across the Atlantic Ocean. And GPS gives you enough
precision to land such an aircraft in a tennis stadium. Now use your
imagination. (Hint: Plastic explosives don't weigh much, and anthrax
is nearly weightless.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-wright/israels-strategic-blunde_b_25134.html

Have I made everybody's day?

Was it carrying any classical recordings?


Bruckner Symphonies and Wagner's Gotterdaemmerung.

Both weapons of mass distraction.



dk


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