Word: radar
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...conclusion: a president can never be entirely protected, even at home. For those responsible for providing that protection, some of the details coming to light are particularly embarrassing. For instance, minutes before Corder, 38, smashed onto the lawn and skidded into the White House early Monday, radar at nearby National Airport reportedly detected the plane. Yet, officials did not notify Secret Service agents who guard the mansion. Federal investigators are probing airport records to learn why.A MATHIAS RUST WANNABE? So why'd Frank Corder do it? He appeared to be depressed by the death of his father and the recent...
...board of Air Force officers recommended that members of the AWACS radar plane involved in last April's shooting down of two U.S. Army helicopters over Iraq be court-martialed for dereliction of duty. A Defense Department study found that the AWACS crew failed to warn U.S. fighter pilots that the helicopters were American Black Hawks, not Iraqi aircraft. Twenty-six U.S. and foreign personnel were killed in the incident. An Air Force general must now decide whether the crew will stand trial...
...Force charged an F-15 pilot involved in shooting down two U.S. helicopters over Iraq last April with negligent homicide. Also charged, but with lesser crimes: five people who were aboard the AWACS radar plane that oversaw the action. The incident, one of the military's deadliest friendly fire tragedies, took the lives of 26 people. Lieut. Colonel Randy W. May could serve 26 years in prison if found guilty. No word yet about the fate of a second pilot, whom the Air Force hasn't identified...
...maximum stability as the machine moves forward at a top speed of 3 ft. per minute, stepping lightly over obstacles up to 4 ft. high. Eight on- board video cameras enable scientists to view the terrain. Even more useful is a laser-ranging system -- a sort of light-based radar -- that makes 30,000 distance measurements every second and generates a virtual-reality computer image of the landscape. Says Bares: "It gives us a very complete picture of what's around...
...Pentagon says "multiple human error" caused the friendly-fire downing of two U.S. helicopters after American AWACS jets mistook them for Iraqi choppers April 14. The Defense Department acknowledged that two F-15pilots were given the go-ahead to attack by controllers aboard an AWACS radar plane, even though air-control personnel were apparently aware the helicopters were not hostile. The pilots, both unidentified, will also be held partly responsible for not following guidelines and could face courts-martial. The accident killed 26 people -- 15 American military officers, the remainder from Britain, Turkey and France.parpar