Anyone familiar with radio controlled airplanes is LOL at this “plot” and the dumbness of the lame stream media reporting on it. Just how much weight do they think an R/C plane can carry? Think you can just stick it on anywhere? Do they think explosives just go off on impact?
Our “perp” has to have a take-off area, start the engine, and fly it by line of sight while holding a transmitter. Sounds real stealthy, doesn't it?
Did they ask if this guy even knows how to fly an R/C plane?
Our “perp” has to have a take-off area, start the engine, and fly it by line of sight while holding a transmitter. Or you could use an I-phone feeding its video back to a computer controller operating via the cellular system.
As for bomb load, that is indeed the kicker for off the shelf remote controlled aircraft.
A well designed small aircraft with a motorcycle engine could probably deliver 100-200 pounds of explosives, but it would also need larger, not off the shelf, control servos.
In a nutshell, not at all rocket science, but not a small project either.