PHOTO: Run for your lives, it's the Iraq Drone! It could spread anthrax!

[Bluebear]

Iraqi drone U.S. warned of looks more like model airplane

AL-TAJI, Iraq -- A remotely piloted aircraft that the United States has warned could spread chemical weapons appears to be made of balsa wood and duct tape, with two small propellors attached to what look like the engines of a weed whacker.

Iraqi officials took journalists to the Ibn Firnas State Company just north of Baghdad on Wednesday, where the drone's project director accused Secretary of State Colin Powell of misleading the U.N. Security Council and the public.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/031303/ira_LA0542-2.shtml

[MercutioATC]

1. Just consider how dangerous THESE people are:

http://www.pbase.com/ronsond/lastday

http://1nvrc.com/ALBUM-MASTER.html

[silverojo]

2. Duct tape? OMG!

Gee, I thought it was supposed to keep us safe! LOL

[NNN0LHI]

3. Fox news had my elderly parents very concerned about the drones n/t

[Bluebear]

4. It's all so ridiculous in retrospect....

how EASY the press made it for BushCo.

[Kutjara]

5. Don't underestimate the drone.

If...um...someone was flying it...um...say, in a park and...um...they got...like...distracted and stuff, then...then it could maybe hit someone and...ah...like...maybe put their eye out...or something.

And they sell these things at HobbyWorld. I mean, what are DHS doooooing!???!?!!

[Bluebear]

6. "what are DHS doooooing"

Underaged girls according to the latest headlines. :eyes:

[tridim]

7. Here's my newest drone

Yep, it flies great!

[Bluebear]

8. STOP! You are frightening me!

No telling what that could do!

[Kutjara]

9. I've just reported you to DHS

you commie, Islamist, terrorist...um...bad guy.

Expect a boot through your door sometime tonight.

[Hawkeye-X]

10. Hey! I'm in the midst of building my own plane

The skeleton work is finished, now waiting for the engine that I won via eBay before the next step. This is a first for me, so what do I need to do to make sure I can fly it?

Thanks!

The kit is called SIG Kadet Senorita

[tridim]

13. Those Kadets are really good as a first plane

Your best bet is to find a local RC club and have them check your work. They'll also help you with your flying if you ask real nice. I'm not a club flyer, but I have been to a few and they have some pretty nice people.

I have a passing fear that Bush might outlaw my hobby if the drone scare polls well for him.

[cynatnite]

12. Put that thing away!

Geez, DHS could be watching...right now...toy planes and pornography...don't you know that's what the terrorists want?

[tridim]

14. They hate me for my modeling skills.

[norml]

15. Here's mine.

[cynatnite]

16. Where's your yellow ribbon?

Don't you love 'murika? :hi:

[pinniped]

11. Where can we run? Those bunker busting drones can find us anywhere!

I would run to my bunker but it will find me.

I hear those drones are capable of mid-air refueling.

This allows them to have unlimited range and can reach anywhere in the world in 30 minutes.

Their maximum payload is 500,000 lbs.

The drone's white fuselage was emblazoned Wednesday with the words "God is great"

Uh, was "God is great" written in English?

Most likely Colon Bowell sprayed it on.