Predator (58 page)

 

P
REDATOR.
Copyright © 2014 by Richard Whittle. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

 

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Portions of chapters 1, 3, and 4 were previously published in different form in “The Drone Started Here” in
Air & Space Smithsonian
(May 2013). Portions of chapters 5 through 10 were previously published in different form in “Predator's Big Safari,” Mitchell Institute for Airpower Studies, Mitchell Paper 7 (August 2011).

 

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Whittle, Richard.

  Predator: the secret origins of the drone revolution / Richard Whittle.

         pages cm

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN 978-0-8050-9964-5 (hardback)—ISBN 978-0-8050-9965-2 (ebook)   1.  Drone aircraft—United States—History.   2.  Drone aircraft—United States—Design and construction.   3.  Karem, Abraham, 1937–   4.  Aerospace industries—California, Southern—History.   I.  Title.

  UG1242.D7W57 2014

  623.74'69—dc23                             2014014070

 

First Edition: September 2014