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A delivery driver from Luton has been convicted of plotting to kill a US airman outside a base in East Anglia.
Junead Khan, 25, a supporter of so-called Islamic State (IS), was found guilty of preparing terrorist acts.
Khan had driven past RAF Lakenheath and other US bases on his delivery route, and had discussed staging a car crash and attacking a soldier with a knife.
He was also convicted of preparing to join IS in Syria. His uncle Shazib Khan was also convicted of the same charge.
BBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said the attack planned by Junead Khan was similar to the killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich in 2013.
Police said he planned to stage a car crash outside an airbase and then use a knife to attack a member of the US military.
He had also done extensive research on how to make a bomb, said Commander Dean Haydon of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command.
'Embroiled in extremism'
During the trial, the court heard Junead Khan had been identified under the government's anti-extremism programme - and had mocked it after police visited him in 2014.
He sent a message to his 23-year-old uncle, Shazib, also from Luton, saying he was laughing out loud because police left a card asking him to call them.
He later met with officers and afterwards sent a message saying: "Hopefully the last I hear from them."
Commenting after the verdicts, police said Junead Khan "repeatedly rejected police offers to help divert him from radicalism".
Officers working as part of Prevent - the government's drive to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism - visited him four times in 2014, the Metropolitan Police said.
But he refused help and became "more embroiled in extremism", and after his arrest police found material including "bomb making guides and terrorist propaganda".
Image copyright PA Image caption Junead Khan's intended targets were US air bases including RAF Mildenhall In what police called a "chilling message" to a suspected IS member, Junead Khan described how he had missed an opportunity to kill US Soldiers on his rounds as a delivery driver.
The message said: "When I saw these US soldiers on road it just looked simple but I had nothing on me or would've got into an accident with them and made them get out the car."
Police also recovered British and US flags stolen from a diner in Dunstable. These were "potentially to be used for a symbolic act during the terrorist attack", the Met said.
In July 2015, Junead Khan had an encrypted online conversation with Junaid Hussain, a British IS operative in Syria.
Image caption The US military said Junaid Hussain's online activity meant he could "reach across the sea" to inspire violence He was sent instructions on how to build a bomb and was told to use it against police if they arrived on the scene of his planned attack.
Days after this online conversation he carried out internet research into buying a large knife - but was then arrested at his workplace.
The following month Junaid Hussain was killed in a US missile strike - one of only a few British IS operatives who have been targeted in this way.
Hussain was a hacker and IS propagandist, and US military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said he had the potential to "radicalise and inspire violence in foreign countries around the world".
Sue Hemming, head of the counter terrorism division of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Through early detection and prosecution of these individuals more serious crimes have been avoided which could have had devastating consequences in the UK or Syria."
The verdicts came after a six-week trial at Kingston Crown Court.
The men were remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 13 May.
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Junead Khan, 25, a supporter of so-called Islamic State (IS), was found guilty of preparing terrorist acts.
Khan had driven past RAF Lakenheath and other US bases on his delivery route, and had discussed staging a car crash and attacking a soldier with a knife.
He was also convicted of preparing to join IS in Syria. His uncle Shazib Khan was also convicted of the same charge.
BBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said the attack planned by Junead Khan was similar to the killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich in 2013.
Police said he planned to stage a car crash outside an airbase and then use a knife to attack a member of the US military.
He had also done extensive research on how to make a bomb, said Commander Dean Haydon of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command.
'Embroiled in extremism'
During the trial, the court heard Junead Khan had been identified under the government's anti-extremism programme - and had mocked it after police visited him in 2014.
He sent a message to his 23-year-old uncle, Shazib, also from Luton, saying he was laughing out loud because police left a card asking him to call them.
He later met with officers and afterwards sent a message saying: "Hopefully the last I hear from them."
Commenting after the verdicts, police said Junead Khan "repeatedly rejected police offers to help divert him from radicalism".
Officers working as part of Prevent - the government's drive to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism - visited him four times in 2014, the Metropolitan Police said.
But he refused help and became "more embroiled in extremism", and after his arrest police found material including "bomb making guides and terrorist propaganda".
Image copyright PA Image caption Junead Khan's intended targets were US air bases including RAF Mildenhall In what police called a "chilling message" to a suspected IS member, Junead Khan described how he had missed an opportunity to kill US Soldiers on his rounds as a delivery driver.
The message said: "When I saw these US soldiers on road it just looked simple but I had nothing on me or would've got into an accident with them and made them get out the car."
Police also recovered British and US flags stolen from a diner in Dunstable. These were "potentially to be used for a symbolic act during the terrorist attack", the Met said.
In July 2015, Junead Khan had an encrypted online conversation with Junaid Hussain, a British IS operative in Syria.
Image caption The US military said Junaid Hussain's online activity meant he could "reach across the sea" to inspire violence He was sent instructions on how to build a bomb and was told to use it against police if they arrived on the scene of his planned attack.
Days after this online conversation he carried out internet research into buying a large knife - but was then arrested at his workplace.
The following month Junaid Hussain was killed in a US missile strike - one of only a few British IS operatives who have been targeted in this way.
Hussain was a hacker and IS propagandist, and US military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said he had the potential to "radicalise and inspire violence in foreign countries around the world".
Sue Hemming, head of the counter terrorism division of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Through early detection and prosecution of these individuals more serious crimes have been avoided which could have had devastating consequences in the UK or Syria."
The verdicts came after a six-week trial at Kingston Crown Court.
The men were remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 13 May.
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