Word: aerials
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...technology of warfare, is 50 years old. To celebrate, DARPA invited Vice President Dick Cheney, a former Defense Secretary well aware of the Agency's capabilities, to help blow out the candles. "This agency brought forth the Saturn 5 rocket, surveillance satellites, the Internet, stealth technology, guided munitions, unmanned aerial vehicles, night vision and the body armor that's in use today," Cheney told 1,700 DARPA workers and friends who gathered at a Washington hotel to mark the occasion. "Thank heaven for DARPA...
Snoopy dreamed about fighting him. The English revered his chivalry in combat. His red Fokker Triplane holds an iconic place in the history of aerial "dogfights." But in Germany, Manfred von Richthofen, the World War I flying ace who downed 80 Australian, British, French and Canadian planes before being shot down himself 90 years ago this month, barely rated a mention in the history books. Postwar Germany, after all, was leery of celebrating legendary warriors. But now, the star of the "Red Baron" may be rising again...
With her 20-lb. (9 kg) camera braced in the window of a tiny airplane, Mary Meader captured images of the Nazca Lines of Peru, the white summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and the massive pyramids of Egypt. Her aerial photographs were some of the first taken of parts of Africa and South America...
...President Carter cited with alarm aerial evidence that a 2,000-to 3,000-man Soviet brigade was training and operating in Cuba. He publicly asked that the troops be withdrawn; they are still there...
...retaliatory binge. And Israeli military sources say that through indirect channels - an Israeli general and Hamas officials were both in Cairo recently meeting with the Egyptians - word has reached former Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders in Gaza that they are no longer being targeted for aerial assassination by Israel...