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I need to blow something up. Sort of.
My heroes are in a private plane (Mitsubishi MU2) with the pilots. The junior bad guy has about 15 minutes or so to conjure up some sort of improvised device that will ignite without further action in about 30 minutes or so (so about 15 minutes after they take off). He's a flightline guy at a smaller airport. He's got access to avgas, JP4, and various other petroleum products as well as a variety of lawncare products and devices. Device will be placed in an interior storage area in the aft part of the cabin. I basically need to have this thing ignite enough to scare the crap out of the pilots and force them to land RIGHT NOW, but gives them time to land. It'll be okay for my story if the plane is destroyed by fire after they land. They just need to be able to land.
Preliminary searching on my part suggests that a weedkiller & sugar bomb could work, maybe tied into a couple of road flares for extra oomph. What I'm not clear on is how to delay the ignition long enough that the bad guy can be sure it'll go off while they're in the air. A smoldering cigarette won't work, because the odor will immediately give it away.
So: improvised incendiary with a 15+ minute fuse. Bonus points for description of what they might see/smell.
My heroes are in a private plane (Mitsubishi MU2) with the pilots. The junior bad guy has about 15 minutes or so to conjure up some sort of improvised device that will ignite without further action in about 30 minutes or so (so about 15 minutes after they take off). He's a flightline guy at a smaller airport. He's got access to avgas, JP4, and various other petroleum products as well as a variety of lawncare products and devices. Device will be placed in an interior storage area in the aft part of the cabin. I basically need to have this thing ignite enough to scare the crap out of the pilots and force them to land RIGHT NOW, but gives them time to land. It'll be okay for my story if the plane is destroyed by fire after they land. They just need to be able to land.
Preliminary searching on my part suggests that a weedkiller & sugar bomb could work, maybe tied into a couple of road flares for extra oomph. What I'm not clear on is how to delay the ignition long enough that the bad guy can be sure it'll go off while they're in the air. A smoldering cigarette won't work, because the odor will immediately give it away.
So: improvised incendiary with a 15+ minute fuse. Bonus points for description of what they might see/smell.