The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Richard Whittle is author of The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey. A Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a 2013–14 Verville Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum, Whittle has covered the military for three decades, including twenty-two years as Pentagon correspondent for The Dallas Morning News. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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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
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