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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 466
August 25, sixteen test approaches were conducted at Holloman with a FedEx Express 727-200.
They were also successful in executing six complete automated landings using the JPALS.
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According to an article by John Croft writing for Aerospace America, landing is the most
difficult part of a flight. Croft was writing on Northrop Grumman’s X-47 UCAV (unmanned
combat air vehicle). Grumman was designing the remote controlled X-47 UCAV so that it could
make the most difficult landing there is; landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier.
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While new advances are being made in landing planes automatically, remote control is
not new. The Air Force has been flying and landing planes by remote control since the 1950s.
That is why Operation Northwoods recommended using remote controlled planes in covert
operations, it was an available technology in 1962. In regards to the history of remote controlled
planes used by the Air Force, Alan Staats writes in his article “Thwarting skyjackings from the
ground”:
Controlling the aircraft from the ground is nothing new. The military has
been flying obsolete high performance fighter aircraft as target drones since the
1950s. In fact the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) had at its
disposal a number of U.S. Air Force General Dynamics F-106 Delta Dart fighter
aircraft configured to be remotely flown into combat as early as 1959 under the
auspices of a program know as SAGE. These aircraft could be started, taxied,
taken off, flown into combat, fight, and return to a landing entirely by remote
control, with human intervention needed only to fuel and re-arm them.
To this day, drone aircraft are remotely flown from Air Force and Navy
bases all over the country to provide targets for both airborne and ground based
weapons platforms.
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Raytheon and 9/11
While Raytheon has been working for the Air Force to develop pilotless technologies, at
least five of their own employees died on 9/11. These employees were alleged to be among the
passengers of three of the four hijacked planes. These were Stanley Hall a Flight 77 passenger;
Peter Gay, Kenneth Waldie and David Kovalcin passengers of Flight 11; and Herbert Homer a
passenger of Flight 175. Hall “was director of program management for Raytheon Electronics
Warfare.” A Raytheon colleague esteemed him as “our dean of electronic warfare.” Gay “was
Raytheon’s vice president of operations for Electronic Systems and had been on special
assignment to a company office in El Segundo, California. Raytheon’s El Segundo’s Electronic
Systems division is one of two divisions making the Global Hawk.” Waldie “was a senior quality
control engineer for Raytheon’s electronic systems”. Kovalcin “was a senior mechanical
engineer for Raytheon’s electronic systems.” Homer “was a corporate executive working with
the Department of Defense.” Why so many Raytheon employees on 9/11 planes?
The Chicago Tribune reported that a number of the passengers of the hijacked planes,
particularly on Flight 77, had military connections. William E. Caswell is just one example of
these. He “was a Navy scientist whose work was so classified that his family knew very little
about what he did each day. Says his mother, 'You just learn not to ask questions.'”
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