Black Ops Project
Unknown to the public, a Congress-mandated “Black Ops Project” had been funded to convert flowers to secret radar dishes to track the flood of drones operating and to sort out the harmless hobbyists from terrorists . . .
Light Weights
TJ was disappointed when Amazon rejected his hummingbird Drone delivery concept. True they were fast and agile, but payload limits were a little light . . .
Secret DARPA Project
A little known DARPA project involved using “black budget” money for modifying dragonflies to act as miniature drones to gather data in sensitive areas. So far though, the dragonfly’s somewhat erratic flight pattern, designed to catch and eat mosquitoes, has thus far yielded little usable data.
Homeland Security Deal
Everyone including Izzy (pictured) was happy with the new “Living Drone” raptor program with Homeland Security to guard borders and do other sensitive surveillance where camouflaging a drone to look like a raptor just wouldn’t work. Fitting Izzy and his buddies with a harness for FLIR (forward looking infrared radar) for operating when overcast or at night had been easy. Fitting the Hellfire missiles as originally planned, though, just wasn’t going to work. The only ones not happy were, of course, PETA, who thought that the raptors were being exploited (“all this dangerous flying for a few fish and meat scraps”), the ACLU, who thought it was illegal to have an eagle search without a warrant, and Al Gore, who thought the eagle–to be green–should be solar-powered . . . . . David, Sf.G.