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Aircraft could be brought down by DIY 'E-bombs'

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FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR.....

RUN FOR THE HILLS.....

Seriously, I don't know how some of you guys wake up in the morning!


I live life like Dale Gribble, A.K.A. Rusty Shackleford! ;)

Dale Gribble said:
I tell you what it is. It's your quote un-quote pollution control. I heard on talk radio you don't even need 'em. It's just the latest nazi government plot. Open your eyes, man, they're trying to control Global Warming. Get it Global. That's U.N. Commissars code for telling us what the temperature is gonna be in our outdoors. Let it warm up I say. See what Butchros Butchros Ghali Ghali thinks of that. We'll grow oranges in Alaska.
 
All of the lighting protection devices on A/C provide a basic level of protection against these types of devices. In addition the development of modern avionics has a level of EMP hardening built in. I would worry about the FADEC computers but the plane will glide.
The fly by wire is probably the worst case but would it be completely disabled or just as messed up as the french control laws on the airbus?
 
All of the lighting protection devices on A/C provide a basic level of protection against these types of devices. In addition the development of modern avionics has a level of EMP hardening built in. I would worry about the FADEC computers but the plane will glide.
The fly by wire is probably the worst case but would it be completely disabled or just as messed up as the french control laws on the airbus?

I don't think you understand very much about computer chips... This is not about lightning strikes, this is a huge pulse of electromagnetism which sails right though everything... This EMP would effectively fry any and every computer chip within range.

It takes very little juice to fry all the chips on your plane. I doubt there is a practical way to shield against these pulses if even military aircraft would be affected. (And they would be.)

The problem system-wise would be that the flight control computers would be disabled. Many modern aircraft don't use cables tied directly to anything anymore. With those computers gone, what good would gliding anymore do? your controls would not work.

-Probably would be better to die quickly in such a scenario anyway-you really don't want to be around for the aftermath of this crap. I understand that about 5 high-altitude airbursts would effectively cover the whole country.....
 
Crj,

You truly are amazing. Not only do you know more than the mgmt team at Delta as far as what routes are profitable or not. But now you are an expert on electromagnetic warfare. Either you are brilliant and your talents are being wasted on flight info and being a rj capt. or you watch too much faux news and episodes of 24.



I don't think you understand very much about computer chips... This is not about lightning strikes, this is a huge pulse of electromagnetism which sails right though everything... This EMP would effectively fry any and every computer chip within range.

It takes very little juice to fry all the chips on your plane. I doubt there is a practical way to shield against these pulses if even military aircraft would be affected. (And they would be.)

The problem system-wise would be that the flight control computers would be disabled. Many modern aircraft don't use cables tied directly to anything anymore. With those computers gone, what good would gliding anymore do? your controls would not work.

-Probably would be better to die quickly in such a scenario anyway-you really don't want to be around for the aftermath of this crap. I understand that about 5 high-altitude airbursts would effectively cover the whole country.....
 
I think CRJ nailed it. Good post. Read "One Second After" for a good analysis.

I haven't read that book, but I plan to-written by a former defense analyst.
-Scary times-
-No matter what you call these terrorist freakshows-they are still scary enough to try something like this.
 

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