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GreatAmerican
Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:46:04 +0000

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/10/defense_uavfires_071024/



NASA and the Air Force plan to fly over Southern California on Wednesday with their UAVs to help firefighters combat raging wildfires that have devastated the region.

A NASA spokesman said the agency’s Ikhana UAV — a version of the Pentagon’s Predator B built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems — is being readied for a nine-hour mission from the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

The Air Force plans to fly its Global Hawk by Northrop Grumman on daily 16-hour missions over the coming seven days from Beale Air Force Base near Sacramento, one source said…