http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-01/u-north-dakota-offers-first-four-year-degree-uav-piloting The Eye In The Sky A Predator drone’s camera/sensor ball. Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt/USAF A dozen aspiring pilots at the University of North Dakota can’t wait to never get off the ground. Following a shifting military strategy that calls for more and more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) supporting troops on the ground, U. […]
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/olympics/send-drones-uavs-border-patrol-and-2010/5956 by Patrick White Globe and Mail, Wednesday, February 18, 2009 WINNIPEG – Famed for prowling the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, a remote-control Predator aircraft took flight over the wheat fields of South Dakota yesterday, the first in a network of surveillance drones that could soon patrol the American border with Canada from Maine […]
Dec 5, 2008 Graham Warwick and John M. Doyle Heavy turbulence has thwarted the second attempt to deliver the first General Atomics Predator B unmanned air vehicle (UAV) to Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., today for duty patrolling the U.S.-Canadian border.The 64-foot wingspan UAV turned back before mid-day because of the rough air about […]
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/UAV_Tested_For_US_Border_Security_999.html The UAV being tested is a version of the MQ9 Predator B (pictured). by Shaun Waterman UPI Homeland and National Security Editor Washington (UPI) Feb 12, 2007 The U.S. government is pushing ahead with developing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs, for land border security with Canada. Officials of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security […]