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Jcrowley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-20-06 08:25 PM
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LOOK! Up in the sky, It's a bird, It's a plane, It's a surveillance drone in the USA
Global Hawk to fly 1st mission over U.S.
Sun Nov 19, 2:59 PM ET

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - They've become a fixture in the skies over Iraq and Afghanistan, a new breed of unmanned aircraft operated with remote controls by "pilots" sitting in virtual cockpits many miles away.

But the Air Force's Global Hawk has never flown a mission over the United States.

That is set to change Monday, when the first Global Hawk is scheduled to land at Beale Air Force Base in northern California.

"This landmark flight has historic implications since it's the first time a Global Hawk has not only flown from Beale, but anywhere in the United States on an official Air Combat Command mission," base spokesman Capt. Michael Andrews said in a statement.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061119/ap_on_re_us/global_hawk
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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-20-06 08:33 PM
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1. What about 9/11?
Didn't they use one to hit the Pentagon?

:evilgrin:

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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-20-06 08:46 PM
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2. Find your house?
Edited on Mon Nov-20-06 08:50 PM by Steve_DeShazer
http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl&q=

:)

Here's mine:

http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl&q=

on edit: looks like Google Maps won't allow you to paste a specific location.
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Hotler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-20-06 08:59 PM
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3. Area man hauled away as terrorist for shooting..
down NSA surveillance drone with pop bottle rockets.
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