In a message dated 1/11/2003 1:26:19 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> And you will probably be able to appreciate the story of the time (mid-late > 70s, and _before_ I was involved in that business) they were testing a UAV > on the range there and lost radio contact with it. They could track it on > radar, they just couldn't talk to it. Those things are set up for test > missions so that after a few minutes without radio contact from the ground > controllers, their engines are supposed to shut down and the parachutes > come out, and it lands. On the land we are now trying to sell for shrimp farming, we once had a downed target drone. All of our land is less than a mile from I-8. I'm sure someone got chewed out for that. Funny thing is, the military never found the parachute for it.... ;-| (straight face.) William Taylor ---------------------- "It was like this when I found it." _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
