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	drone on Encyclopedia.com
		Aircraft, ships, and land vehicles can be designed or outfitted as drones, although underwater vessels—both piloted and pilotless—are usually called submersibles.
		Small, relatively inexpensive military drones are used as targets in combat practice, while high-performance models may be used in hazardous reconnaissance missions and to carry and launch missiles against enemy targets without exposing pilots and their far more expensive aircraft to antiaircraft fire.
		Drone, avion sans pilote, présenté lors du salon des industries de l'armement terrestre Eurosatory 2000 Après avoir envahi.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/d1/drone.asp (949 words)

	Unmanned aerial vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), also called a drone, is a self-descriptive term used by the US military, the Israeli Defence Forces and others to describe the latest generations of pilotless aircraft.
		Taken literally, the term could describe anything from kites, through hobbyist radio-controlled aircraft, to cruise missiles from the V-1 Flying Bomb onwards, but in the military parlance is restricted to reusable heavier-than-air craft.
		The military envisions that more and more roles will be performed by unmanned aircraft, initially bombing and ground attack, with air-to-air combat expected to be the last domain of the fighter pilot for now.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unmanned_Aerial_Vehicle (536 words)

	U.S. Military Aircraft Designation Systems
		Aircraft with this status prefix were exempt from compliance with routine technical directives, as they were bailed to manufacturers or equipment companies for special test or development programs.
		Aircraft with this mission were modified to operate as carriers of parasite aircraft.
		Aircraft in special test program by authorized activities or on bailment contract where the configuration changes so drastically that returning to the original operational configuration is impractical or uneconomical.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/d/o/dob104/aviation/us/system.html (1131 words)

	The Future of Recoverable Drones for Tactical Air Forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		A recoverable drone is defined for the purpose of this discussion as a mission drone in the 3500- to 6000-pound class that is controlled from a ground station or a launch aircraft and designed to perform electronic warfare, reconnaissance, or weapon delivery missions.
		Current drones are not designed for mobility and require an inordinate amount of airlift relative to their combat contribution in the employment theater.
		The current drone deployment capability is being studied by USAFTAWC, and a recent overseas movement of the 11 TDS is being evaluated for deployment, employment, and redeployment to identify areas for improvement and simplification of mobility requirements.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1975/jul-aug/cunningham.html (3514 words)

	BQ-7
		Responsibility for preparing and flying the drone aircraft was given to the 3rd Bombardment Division, which passed the job down to the 388th Bombardment Group, which in turn passed responsibility down to the 562nd Squadron based at Honington in Suffolk.
		The canopy was removed from each aircraft, creating an open cockpit so that the two-man crew could exit the plane with minimum delay once they had completed their tasks.
		The other drone decided to develop a mind of its own and the explosives-packed aircraft began to circle the industrial area of Ipswich before flying out to sea, where it was harmlessly ditched.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher2/b17_14.html (1124 words)

	Factsheets : MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle : MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
		The MQ-1 Predator is a medium-altitude, long-endurance, remotely piloted aircraft.
		The aircraft is equipped with a color nose camera (generally used by the pilot for flight control), a day variable-aperture TV camera, a variable-aperture infrared camera (for low light/night), and a synthetic aperture radar for looking through smoke, clouds or haze.
		The Predator aircraft can be disassembled and loaded into a "coffin." The ground control system is transportable in a C-130 (or larger) transport aircraft.
	www.af.mil /factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=122 (709 words)

	The 9/11 You Were Never Told About, Frank Eugene Corder
		He was building a small kit aircraft of his own at the same airport the Cessna 150L was stolen from, and frequently worked alone at night on his pet project, making him the perfect target of opportunity for anyone needing a pilot, dead or alive.
		The drones do not interact with each other, they are simply commanded to follow a specific moving point in space known as a "rabbit", with each aircraft maintaining a specific three-dimensional offset from the rabbit.
		Basically all he or she needs to do is “lead” the aircraft with the invisible rabbit, and the Cessna will follow as vigorously as a greyhound at a race track.
	geocities.com /roboplanes/cessna.html (2462 words)

	CBC News:U.S. loses drone aircraft over Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Predator drone was on a reconnaissance mission when it was shot down by Iraqi aircraft.
		Pentagon officials were the first to announce that Iraqi fighter planes entered the southern no-fly zone and fired on the drone.
		The unmanned aircraft are used often for surveillance, but can also be armed with missiles.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/print/2002/12/23/drone_shotdown021223 (205 words)

	Douglas DB-26C Invader - US Air Force Museum Attack Aircraft Virtual Aircraft Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		These aircraft were used during test programs for new air-to-air missiles or advanced fire control systems.
		Additionally, the aircraft was used in support of combat crew training by providing aerial targets for pilot proficiency training.
		These director aircraft began service in the late 1950s and continued through the 1960's before being replaced by more modern aircraft capable of carrying larger drones.
	www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/research/attack/a4/a4-19.htm (288 words)

	The Case of the 'Deadly' Drone \| csmonitor.com
		An unmanned aircraft with a 25-foot wingspan is at the center of a US/UN weapons controversy.
		The remotely piloted drone - with "God is Great" written in Arabic along the fuselage and on each wing, with a red permanent marker - has a wingspan of nearly 25 feet (a little more than half the wingspan of the US Predator drone).
		A blue drone at the fair had a single propeller and an Iraqi flag painted on the tail.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0313/p06s01-woiq.html (937 words)

	Douglas DB-26B Drone Director - US Air Force Museum Attack Aircraft Virtual Aircraft Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		All guns were removed and and special drone mount points were added to the wings to enable special pylons to be added.
		The aircraft was intended to test new air-to-air missiles by providing a target drone for live fire tests.
		These aircraft (on canceled contract AC-21393) were direct delivered from the factory to the Kingman reclamation center (RFC) beginning in October 1945.
	www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/research/attack/a4/a4-11.htm (347 words)

	NBook.com - QU-22 "Pave Eagle"
		Unlike the advanced monitoring aircraft (UAV) of today, and despite its formal designation as a drone, the QU-22 was flown by a pilot during combat operations.
		The aircraft had extended wings with additional fuel tanks at the tips and was powered by one turbocharged Continental IO-520B engine, with a reduction gearbox which reduced propeller RPM for quieter operation.
		After acquisition from Beech, the aircraft were delivered to the Univac division of Sperry Rand for the installation of mission equipment.
	www.nbook.com /qu-22 (721 words)

	Radioplane RP-5A Target Drone
		Up to the introduction of these small target drones, the antiaircraft gunnery crews target practice was limited to shooting at towed target sleeves.
		The use of the "sleeves" had numerous drawbacks: (1) they flew only in straight lines, (2) they didn't look like airplanes, (3) during a target run, the crews could not tell whether or not the sleeve had been hit, and (4) the danger of hitting the tow aircraft was always there.
		The USAAF supported Denny's efforts to prove the practicality of the target drone aircraft.
	www.wmof.com /rp5a.htm (312 words)

	Operation Northwoods - Demopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		An aircraft at Eglin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil registered aircraft belonging to a CIA proprietary organization in the Miami area.
		From the rendezvous point the passenger-carrying aircraft will descend to minimum altitude and go directly into an auxiliary field at Eglin AFB where arrangements will have been made to evacuate the passengers and return the aircraft to its original status.
		An aircraft at Elgin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil registered aircraft belonging to a CIA proprietary organization in the Miami area.
	demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Operation_Northwoods (758 words)

	Printable Version
		The U.N. mission that patrols the border between Iraq and neighboring Kuwait, where U.S. Army and Marines are deploying, said it would move some of its observers on both sides of the frontier to headquarters in Kuwait in response to an increased alert level implemented Saturday.
		But Iraq took journalists to see the drone on Wednesday, and there appeared to be little in the aircraft to inspire awe or fear.
		The aircraft, which has a wingspan of 7.4 meters (24.5 feet), is controlled from the ground with the naked eye, Latif said.
	www.helenair.com /articles/2003/03/12/breaking/latest0008.prt (897 words)

	Targeting at Llanbedr
		These aircraft were converted by Flight Refuelling Ltd at Tarrant Rushton, and initial flight tests with the Meteor as a drone were carried out at Farnborough on 2 September 1954, using a Meteor T.7 piloted by Flt Lt E F Pennie.
		Telemetry as such was not available then, so a shepherd aircraft, usually another Meteor would escort the drone to the entrance to the Range, hold well clear and rejoin after the sortie had concluded.
		Between 1977 and 1985 the aircraft was converted to a D.3 drone by Flight Refuelling Ltd and flew as a manned drone from Llanbedr from 1986 until its retirement in 1991.
	www.airsceneuk.org.uk /hangar/1999/dera/targets.htm (1620 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Hezbollah sends drone aircraft over Israel
		The militant Islamic group said that the flight was in response to repeated Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace and that it reached Israel's northern coastal city of Nahariya before returning to base.
		It was unclear whether the drone was a homemade, makeshift aircraft or bought from abroad.
		Lebanon's armed forces have no drones or fighter jets, with lightly-armed helicopters forming the backbone of the air force.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/11/08/hezbollah_sends_drone_aircraft_over_israel (572 words)

	Mars Airplane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In the early 1990's, a solar aircraft concept was generated by NASA Glenn.
		At the direction of NASA Headquarters, a six year planetary aircraft technology development program is being formulated, with the initial focus on the development of those technologies relevant to flight on Mars.
		Whether it is a traditional aircraft or a mechanical "bug", these vehicles will revolutionize the exploration of Mars and other planetary bodies in our solar system, and NASA Glenn will be in the forefront in providing the propulsion, power, and communications technologies required to enable these missions.
	powerweb.grc.nasa.gov /doc/marsairplane.html (1077 words)

	U.N.: Iraqi drone aircraft were no chemical threat - billingsgazette.com
		The Bush administration cited the threat that Iraqi drones could be used in such attacks on U.S. cities in making its case for invading Iraq, but U.S. weapons inspectors in Iraq challenged those claims after the U.S.-led invasion.
		Although the United Nations has suspected that Iraq had halted development of drones for chemical or biological attacks, the findings are the most definitive U.N. account of the program since the U.N. inspection agency was established in 1999.
		Although Iraq developed several other drones, including a converted short-range L-29, a Czech training aircraft, U.N. inspectors have "found no technical evidence" that Iraq built such aircraft "for the delivery" of chemical or biological weapons, according to Perricos.
	www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/09/05/build/world/40-iraqi-drone-aircraft.inc (573 words)

	USATODAY.com - Pentagon could use old Cessnas as drone aircraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Jenkins says the Cessna aircraft, which have two engines and can fly as fast as 200 mph, could carry up to six missiles as well as smaller rockets.
		The Cessnas could be converted into unmanned drones, he says, by turbocharging the engines and installing satellite communication and high-tech optical equipment.
		The military's unmanned aircraft are controlled by pilots on the ground and crews trained to fire their weapons.
	www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2002/01/24/usat-drone.htm (540 words)

	Russia Develops Drone Aircraft for Multiple Launch Missile System
		Russian specialists have developed a drone reconnaissance aircraft that can be launched from a multiple launch missile system.
		The aircraft will be able to direct fire for up to 20 minutes.
		According to unconfirmed data, the plant that makes drone RSZO rockets is currently making homing devices for Smerch missiles, Izvestia newspaper.
	www.infowars.com /articles/world/russia_develops_drone_aircraft.htm (118 words)

	Piper AE, HE by Jack McKillop
		Their first aircraft, the Model 17 Staggerwing biplane, designated GB and JB, q.v., in U.S. Navy (USN) service, had been introduced in 1932 and this new aircraft would be radically different in construction and design than its predecessor.
		These five-place aircraft, designated JRB-1, had a hatch within the cabin door to allow an oblique camera installation; they also had a fairing over the cockpit and forward cabin to allow for the radio control of drone aircraft.
		These aircraft were designed as advanced pilot trainers and light bombers and were equipped with a Plexiglas nose, a dorsal turret, internal bomb racks and a machine gun in the rear floor.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/aviation/jrb_expedition.htm (2345 words)

	B-17 Drones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The first peacetime use of drone Fortresses was as unmanned aircraft that would fly near or even through mushroom clouds during atomic tests.
		The last active USAF Fortress, a drone director with the serial of 44-83684, arrived at Davis-Monthan AFB for storage in August of 1959.
		The few DB-17P drone controllers remaining on Air Force rolls in 1960 were transferred to various museums such as the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio and the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, California.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher2/b17_24.html (627 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Nuclear-powered drone aircraft on drawing board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The USAF hopes that such a vehicle will be able to "loiter" in the air for months without refuelling, striking at will when a target comes into its sights.
		But the idea is bound to raise serious concerns about the wisdom of flying radioactive material in a combat aircraft.
		Instead of a conventional fission reactor, it is focusing on a type of power generator called a quantum nucleonic reactor.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn3406 (728 words)

	MarsNews.com :: Nuclear-powered drone aircraft on drawing board
		There are many advantages of a balloon over some kind of drone aircraft in the martian atmosphere.
		I think it will be some time until the public will accept nuclear drones flying around autonomously, if they could redirect their military ambitions into human endeavours in pioneering space there just might be hope for us.
		Having an aircraft that demonstrates the technology is a very interesting proposition, and one that the USAF would salivate over.
	www.marsnews.com /archives/2004/04/05/nuclearpowered_drone_aircraft_on_drawing_board.html (1165 words)

	'Drone' Aircraft May Be Used To Hunt Chemical Weapons (US Cities)
		Pilotless "sniffer-drone" aircraft could soon be flying above cities searching for the first whiff of a chemical attack.
		Researchers in the United States say the drones could give early warnings of terrorist gas attacks with nerve agents such as tabun, sarin or VX.
		The drones would be fitted with a newly developed ultra-lightweight sensor system that can detect nerve gas and blister agents.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/839583/posts (675 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Small drone aircraft are normally used for surveillance over enemy territory, or to track and attack Palestinian militants.
		The strike Friday used a Hellfire missile fired from a Predator drone to hit the artillery gun outside the Iraqi town of Amarah, which is on the Tigris River north of Basra.
		Diplomatic sources have told The Times that the drone is believed to be the same one that was mentioned by Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, in his intelligence briefing of the Security Council on February 5.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=DRONE (5003 words)

	Drone aircraft patrol U.S.-Mexican border - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Two Hermes 450 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are part of a $10 million Department of Homeland Security initiative aimed at gaining "operational control" of the border, the Washington Times said Monday.
		Customs spokesman Mario Villarreal said the craft will assist manned aircraft, helicopters and ground sensors already in place, and will be controlled and monitored by border patrol agents throughout the summer.
		David Aguilar, who will assume control of the Border Patrol as chief Thursday, said an additional 260 Border Patrol agents will be deployed along 260 miles of international border, where more than 400,000 illegal aliens were arrested last year.
	washingtontimes.com /upi-breaking/20040628-073622-6288r.htm (190 words)

	SENIOR BOWL D-21 / TAGBOARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Lockheed D-21 (Project Tagboard) was an unmanned or "drone" aircraft designed to carry out high-speed, high-altitude strategic reconnaissance missions over hostile territory.
		The D-21 ramjet-powered reconnaissance drone was powered by a Marquardt RJ-43-MA-11 ramjet.
		Originally, the D-21 was designed to be launched from the back of a modified A-12 (redesignated M-12) carrier aircraft.
	www.fas.org /irp/program/collect/d-21.htm (299 words)

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