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Tiny Uncrewed Aircraft To Fly Into Hurricanes
New Scientist ^
| 9-12-2006
| Jeff Hecht
Posted on 09/13/2006 11:17:02 AM PDT by blam
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:17:06 AM PDT
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blam
To: NautiNurse; Howlin
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:17:45 AM PDT
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blam
To: blam
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:18:11 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.)
To: blam; dirtboy; Dog Gone; Gabz; nwctwx; central scrutinizer
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:20:10 AM PDT
by
Howlin
(Who in the press will stick up for ABC's right to air this miniseries? ~~NRO)
To: blam
It was not reported but the reason that these aircraft are "uncrewed" is the lack of volunteer Ommpah Loompahs!
To: Howlin; blam
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:23:35 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
To: blam
If the hurricane wants to avoid our bothersome nosing around, it should park itself in a cemetary.
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:24:51 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: blam
"Uncrewed"? I'm sorry, but I'm still going to say, "unmanned."
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:27:11 AM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
To: blam
Can't they at least put Harry Reid on it?
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:29:03 AM PDT
by
SerpentDove
(It's not rocket surgery.)
To: Fiji Hill
""Uncrewed"? I'm sorry, but I'm still going to say, "unmanned." LOL. I actually had to look twice to make sure it didn't say unscrewed.
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:29:15 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
These aircraft used to be called "unmanned", but I guess that's too politically incorrect. For a while it was "uninhabited", and now "uncrewed".
To: blam
38 years in Meteorology, retired 5 years ago (see Greenland in my profile). A project like this one makes me wish I were still working.
The one thing I loved doing was flying balloons and getting upper air profiles for U.S. Army and Air Force R&D.
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:33:33 AM PDT
by
Lokibob
(Spelling and typos are copyrighted. Please do not use.)
To: blam
Better than sending million dollar Hercules with brave USAF personnel into the eye of the storm.
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:46:38 AM PDT
by
Killborn
(Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
To: blam
Betcha that Bush and Cheney's hurricane making machine (which must be on the fritz, by the way, as they can't seem to hit a continent with one this year) will be able to make hurricanes that can thwart these tiny unpeopled vehicles. </sarc>
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:47:38 AM PDT
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bws53
To: bws53
That's right. BushCheney have been working feverishly on LeveeNoMore - a system that melts levees from the inside that works only around black neighborhoods.
It's also undetectable, even from the NoI Mothership.
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:56:08 AM PDT
by
Bosco
(Remember how you felt on September 11?)
To: bws53
Bush and Cheney's hurricane making machine
I thought it was one of Karl Rove's "Evil Rovian Devices" (tm).
Maybe Bush and Cheney didn't read the manual. Or, it could be that Rove's machines never work as well as they do in the demo.
To: Fiji Hill
Uncrewed. Unpersoned. Not peopled. Bodyfree. Humanless. Pilot deprived. Crewbare.
Yeah ... unmanned is still best.
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:58:15 AM PDT
by
atlaw
To: blam
Thought it said "unscrewed." Like maybe the nose end would come off and there would be a camera inside.
To: blam; NautiNurse
Flying into a hurricane is not the challenge ... flying out will be the neat trick! In one piece would be even better.
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:58:44 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Katherine Harris for US Senate!)
To: Howlin
Awesome! I bet it will be possible to get live streaming reports from this.
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posted on
09/13/2006 2:17:09 PM PDT
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Dog Gone
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