California Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Chris Salgado
remembers his wife calling him to the television set August 10 to
see news reports about a terrorist ring unearthed in London that
was planning attacks on US-bound airliners.
Aero-News has learned Retired Brig. Gen. Robert F. McDermott, US
Air Force Academy dean of the faculty from 1956 to 1968, died
August 28 in San Antonio, TX, after suffering a stroke two weeks
earlier. He was 86.
Our regular readers may recognize the subject of our next
story... as we're talking about the CyberBug, the diminutive
unmanned aerial vehicle that earlier this year caused a brief stir
when the police department in Gaston County, NC began flying the
hand-launched UAVs in support of law enforcement operations.