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Working with a Publisher’s Editors
I mentioned in an earlier post that my book, The Drone Enigma, will be published by Koehler Books in January 2014. I'm in final stages leading up to publication and have recently completed the edit process with the publisher. No one enjoys the self-editing and...
Hampton Roads Writers Conference 2013
The 5th annual Hampton Roads Writers Conference was held at the Westin Hotel at Town Center in Virginia Beach September 19-21. The conference began Thursday evening and ran through Saturday. Because of a previous commitment, I was unable to attend the Thursday evening...
Salty Dog 501 Aborts Carrier Landing
On July 10, 2013, after two earlier successful trapped landings on the USS George HW Bush (CVN-77), the Navy's X-47B "Salty Dog 502" drone self-aborted on a third attempt and flew to an airfield on Wallops Island on the Virginia Eastern Shore. The plan was to have the...
Historic Day for the US Navy and Naval Aviation
Remember the date, Wednesday, July 10, 2013. It's the day that the US Navy's drone, the X-47B dubbed "Salty Dog 502," made an arrested or trapped landing on an aircraft carrier, the USS George HW Bush (CVN-77). In trapped landings, the drone, like a manned aircraft,...
Iran claims to have captured US ScanEagle surveillance drone
In December, Iran claimed to have captured a U.S. ScanEagle surveillance drone that was violating Iranian airspace. The ScanEagle, designed to be flown from a ship, is a small drone, 4.5 feet long with a wingspan of 10.2 feet with an empty weight of under 30 pounds....
Update – Virginia set to ban drones for two years
In an update to yesterday's blog post, Stacy Parker has reported today in the Virginian-Pilot ("Hobbyists finding there's not place like drone") that Virginia's two-year moratorium on the use of drones by police and government agencies will not apply to civilians....