Anika, Bart, Terry, Mouse and Dakota were sitting around the dining room table. There were pictures laid out on the table of the molds and other items Terry, Dakota and Hatter had found. Mouse was looking over a few of them as she examined one.
She looks towards Terry “you’re saying this is a mold for a remote or programable drone?”
Mouse had some modeling experience. She flew drones on the weekend when she didn’t have other things to do.
“The design in the forms, are molds for a carbon fiber part. Even the dryer in the room is big enough to dry every part.” Terry’s engineering skills were telling her that those molds were used to construct some sort of drone.
“Is the Queen or any of the Royal family doing anything publicly?” Anika figures Mouse would know, because of the security concern for the Royal family and the fact her mother would be invited or part of the event.
“Not that I know of. I would have to ask my mom and check for any security alerts that have come out.” Mouse has only gone to a few of the Royal events.
“Terry, what would be the range on this drone?” Anika looks towards their engineering expert.
“Depends on what its power source is and where they launch it from.” Terry needed to know more about it, before she could give Anika an honest answer.
“Mouse, the cameras that were turned off. Did they make some sort of map we could use?” Bart was curious.
Mouse starts tapping on her laptop keyboard and brings up all the cameras that had been turned off. She watches as the different cameras in areas form some sort of map.
“I have managed to form a map from all the cameras that have been turned off.” Mouse looks towards Bart and Anika.
She brings the map up on the main television screen for everyone to see. She stands up and walks over towards the television “here’s what I got so far.”
Terry and Bart look at the route.
“Where is that leading to?” Bart was tracing the route with a laser pointer.
“They are heading towards Clarence House. It seems that they are after Prince Charles.” Bart was looking at the camera’s that were turned off in that area.
“Why? Why go after the old fart? I would go after his children and grandchildren. It would hurt him more.” Hatter was thinking like an assassin.
“That does make more sense. Going after Prince Charles wouldn’t be worth it.” Anika had to admit, that Hatter was right.
“Mouse, can you give us access to all the people we are after? That way we can see what the connection is to the royal family? Also, find out who owns that location we went to, please?” Bart wanted to know what the connection was.
“No problem Anika. I can have that information to you by the end of the work day.” Mouse makes a note on her laptop.
“Now, I want to know more about this operation the three of you took part in.” Anika looks towards Terry, Dakota and Hatter.
“We stumbled across an Isis human smuggling operation. They are recruiting young teenage girls and filling their heads with lies to come over here and then smuggle them into Turkey, Afghan and Pakistan. A martial arts teacher and her students came across it.” Terry knew Ginja had spoken with Shigeko and arrangements have been made.
“My mom and Uncle Jack are going to make sure the girls that were rescued are returned to their family.” Mouse remember hearing her mother taking to some friends of hers.
“What do we know about this Martial Arts person?” Anika wanted to know who Ginja was.
“Someone you don’t want to mess with, Queenie.” Hatter could sense the woman was dangerous. There was a vibe about her she picked up on.
Anika looks towards Hatter “what did I say about calling me, Queenie?”
“Sorry mom. The woman is dangerous, but she has a kind heart.” Hatter had a playing card in her hand. She had been checking for nicks.
“There’s also a metro Detective that worked with us as well. She figured out that we had transported Julie and her sister Laila. She also wants to meet the girls.” Terry thought Anika might want to know that info.
“No way.” Bart didn’t want the girls to be bother and reminded of what they went through.
Anika looks over toward Bart and could see that he was concerned about the girls.
“We could invite her here.” Shigeko comes walking in with a tray of snacks.
She places the tray on the table. She glances towards Bart, because she knew that after this mission. He was going back home and take the girls with him. Caroline was already fixing their bedrooms back on the ranch to the way girls wanted their rooms. They couldn’t wait to go to Texas to meet Caroline.
Bart just looks at Shigeko. The father part of him wanted to protect the girls. Now, he knows how Jack must have felt when he found Julia and Gina.
“I trust her Bart. If we were going to have a team over here in England. I would recommend her and the other people. There’s one person I think we should think about adding to our team or even to this mission. She’s a street magician and it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for her to act as a lookout, while performing.” Dakota knew that would be a good thing to do.
“Well, I could patrol that area more and scan for any unusual signals. The jammer in the taxi should interfere with their signal.” Terry knew the
jammer she had in the taxi, Wraith and the Nobel was strong enough to jam even military signals.
“Alright, I’ll meet with this other woman and see what she is capable of. As for the Detective, I think Julie should meet the detective Bart. Julie knows more about what was going on then her sister did.” Anika knew the girls were a touchy subject with Bart.
“I can agree to that. So, we need to find out why they are going after the Prince or his children.”
Comments
In this day and age of drones
In this day and age of drones being employed in just about everything, it is a safe bet that someone will attempt killing persons of note or position by using one or more to do so. I am glad that the team has discovered this even if it is by accident. With this information in hand, they can give it a priority to pursue those doing it and/or give the information to agencies that can also pursue it through their own channels.
Considering how long remote
Considering how long remote control planes have been in existence, and how few 'plane bombs' there have been, I don't think it's as much of a concern as you apparently feel.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Skill Level
RC airplanes are much more demanding to fly. As well, RC airplanes are limited in the amount of mass they can lift. Packing in the power systems and control linkages and keeping within the engine or motor capability is a bit tricky. My next door neighbor when I was a kid used to build, fly, and race RC airplanes, and it was a continuous battle to keep the mass down below the max lifting capacity of the AC.
Of course in those days we didn't have all the carbon fiber materials that are available now, but the propulsion systems are still limited in what they can do.
By comparison the current drones are far easier to control, stability is designed into the system from the start. And they all use some sort of computer control that can be modified to do pretty much anything you want. Ever seen the mass formations of mini drones flying complicated courses and routines in and around each other? All done by computer control. And it is easy to add more motors to the drone. With modern day battery tech the power problem can be negated. Just look at those delivery drones Amazon and others are testing. They have 12 (or more) motors and good lifting capabilities.
State of the art is advancing at a rapid rate in this area. What might be possible today can/will become common in the future. Don't bet against drones. Have you seen the super-scale drone a guy built that is large enough for him to sit in and fly himself? That is current tech. What will be possible a few years from now?
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
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Amazingly enough, they've been building flying vehicles intended for individual ownership (everyman) that are large enough to lift a person off of the ground for almost 100 years. (1934)
They're still not there yet. I remember a "flying car" from the 1970's (maybe 80s) that used gas powered motors to drive six fans around the outside of the "car", plus one at the back for motive force. The problem was that it wasn't fuel efficient. You couldn't contain enough fuel to run it for long - plus a passenger.
That's the difficulty with drones. You can get a drone that can carry a load, or it can stay up for a while. Not both. We'll need at least one more major breakthrough in energy storage capacity to get there.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
What puzzles me is the size of the drone.
I am not sure if I interpret what I read right, but is seems it is going to be rather big? A remote abduction perhaps of the royal kids?
Monique S
Drone size
The drone is about the size of the drone it is 28ft long, has a 48 ft. long wings and height is 7ft tall., The Drone is bigger then the drone wraith carries in him. Where this is more military style, Spirit is a lot smaller.
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
My take
I've been theorizing based on a quadcopter-style drone. A lot of the problems of using a aircraft-style device go away with the multi-engine copter system (as explained elsewhere). You're thinking outside the box, but it's the wrong box.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
That's military size! A
That's military size! A drone that size can stay up for hours carrying enough missiles or explosives to take out Parliament. But I thought you said a clothes drier was large enough to cure the molds?
It needs a special runway, is
It needs a special runway, is too large not to be spotted on radar, and would be too loud to not get noticed by people below.
And it's supposed to attack unnoticed? Yeah right...sorry, but unless she is cooking up a fiction muffler system for the plane it's going to get spotted by anyone with half a brain. Even with a mole inside MI5 or MI6 to make the MoD look the other way, they can't force air traffic controllers to ignore the plane's signature on radar.
I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime
Drone size
I guess you have to either continue to read the story to see how it is pulled off or think outside the box on how it can be done. Like I use to tell people and students I worked with. If you want to counter a thief or figure out how they did it, you have to think like them.
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
Dryer
It’s a special dryer, like a paint booth style. You can walk into.
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
Not a good thing
Getting emotionally involved with a mission, the type of missions they go on, could get a person killed. Bart needs to keep it professional and do what in the girl's best interest, not his.
All they have are the molds and a lot of cameras out of service. They are reaching in assuming the drone from the molds will be used as they think. With that many cameras out any vehicle could drive that rout without being identified. Without more concrete information they can only make guesses, guesses which better be right before what's planned is executed.
Others have feelings too.