Sport of Reading - Yellow 01

Newspapers contain numerous accounts of the hijacking of airliners. Some of these acts of air piracy have involved large jets and scores of passengers. It was thieves in England, however, who reduced the hijacking of airplanes to its smallest limits. These new criminals did not steal jumbo jets in midair. Their targets were some tiny model aircraft.

A group of people who spend weekends flying remote controlled model planes complained that their airships had been stolen in mid-flight. These model planes, some costing several hundred dollars, are controlled by radio signals from the ground. Each plane responds to a different radio frequency.

Apparently, the thieves had created a device which could send radio signals on the same frequencies the owners used to command their planes. Needless to say, the group did not send up a fleet of expensive new models to test this notion.