Dark Eagles: A History of the Top Secret U.S. Aircraft

580

Fulghum, 'Solar-Powered UAV to Fly at Edwards,' 27; and Brown, 'The Eternal Airplane,' 100.

581

Interview with Lt. Col. Dale Tietz, director of the Raptor/Talon program, April 5, 1994.

582

Interview with Bob Curtin of AeroVironment Inc., April 5, 1994.

583

David A. Fulghum, 'Scud-Killing UAVs Now Science Tool,' Aviation Week and Space Technology (October 31, 1994), 27.

584

Curtin interview, April 5, 1994.

585

AeroVironment Inc., 'Backgrounder — Pathfinder Solar-Electric Aircraft.'

586

Brown, 'The Eternal Airplane,' 100.

587

Lt. Col. Dale Tietz, 'Raptor/Talon Briefing,' Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, 1993; and Dornheim, 'Raptor/Pathfinder to Test High-Efficiency Propulsion,' 60.

588

Brown, 'The Eternal Airplane,' 74; and AeroVironment Inc., 'Backgrounder — Pathfinder Solar-Electric Aircraft.'

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AeroVironment Inc., 'Backgrounder — Pathfinder Solar-Electric Aircraft.'

590

Conversations with NASA personnel at the Pathfinder display, 1993 Edwards AFB Air Show; and 'Solar- Powered Spy,' Air and Space (February/March 1994), 11, 12.

591

Tietz interview, April 5, 1994.

592

Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, ''Pathfinder' Solar-Electric Unmanned Air Vehicle Data Sheet,' 1993.

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Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, 'Pathfinder Questions and Answers,' 1993.

594

Louis C. Gerken, UAV— Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Chula Vista, Calif.: American Scientific Corporation, 1991), 110. The 'Teal' prefix in Teal Rain commonly refers to sensor systems. (Recall that 'Senior' is used for strategic reconnaissance such as the D-21, while 'Have' was used for aircraft technology programs like Have Blue.)