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...Command--first realized that his growing fleet of unmanned aircraft represented a missed opportunity. "It just clicked: that if we could put a small weapon on this thing, we could do the entire cycle--find a target, kill it and assess it--from the same vehicle," the Vietnam War pilot recalls. Jumper didn't actually engineer the missile-firing drone, but he oversaw and championed its development. Even more important, he fought the bureaucratic battles needed to get it into the air. On Feb. 21, he prevailed: in a test conducted in the Nevada desert, a Predator took...
Jumper, 56, acknowledges that as a former "white-scarf fighter pilot" (and the father of two daughters who wear Air Force blue), he might be expected to hate drones for usurping the role of the fighter jock. Not so. "Pilots are for anything," he says, "that will get them in and out alive...
...Monday when American Airlines Flight 587, which took off from JFK Airport bound for the Dominican Republic, crashed in the residential borough of Queens. All 260 passengers and crew aboard the Airbus A300 were killed, along with five people on the ground. Investigators examining the flight recorders believe the pilot lost control after the jet twice hit turbulence from another aircraft. Inquiries are focusing on what made the plane?s tail fin and rudder apparently snap...
...Taliban may ban television to their people, but they're not dumb. They understand its glittering global power. They wanted television; we print journalists were nothing more than pilot fish following in the wake of the network leviathans...
...year all screening will be under federal supervision and performed by federal employees (who will be permitted to unionize, but not to strike). That will be the case for at least three years in all commercial airports - except for five airports, chosen for their varying sizes, which will test pilot programs for private screening firms. Those airports that meet federal standards after three years will have the option of using local law enforcement or private firms to maintain their security forces...