Hunger rattled its dry bones among the roasting chestnuts in the turned cylinder; Hunger was shred into
atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.
Meanwhile, work continues at its manufacturer, General
Atomics, to develop a maritime version of the UAV that will patrol the Caribbean, Gulf Coast and other seas surrounding the United States.
General
Atomics is saddened to report the abrupt and unexpected passing of Dr.
The Mariner derivative of the General
Atomics Aeronautical Systems Predator B took to the skies recently to test the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (Barns) solution jointly developed with Lockheed Martin for the US Navy.
Companies believed to be bidding include SHARP-developer Raytheon (Goleta, CA), Northrop Grumman Electronic Sensors and Systems Sector (Baltimore, MD), and General
Atomics Aeronautical Systems (San Diego, CA).
The manufacturer of both aircraft, General
Atomics, is unlikely to have enough capacity to increase production so it can meet both services' requirements, said Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne.
John Greene, a fusion theoretical physicist and long-time researcher at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and a senior advisor to the fusion theory group at General
Atomics died October 21 due to complications related to the California fires.
At the 2003 Paris Air Show, the company announced that it had completed the integration and end-to-end air vehicle/payload testing of a General
Atomics AN/APY-8 tactical synthetic aperture radar on the Fire Scout.
"European Report" understands that Italy has finally selected the General
Atomics (San Diego, CA) Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to fulfill its tri-service medium-altitude, tactical endurance, surveillance UAV requirement (see "European Air Forces Eye Predator," JED, October 1999, p.
Initial testing on an advanced cockpit ground control station for unmanned aerial vehicles was recently completed by General
Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.