The Nimrod spy plane exploded on 2 September 2006, shortly after undergoing air-to-air refuelling.
Flying ten miles high, a new unmanned spy plane will capture moving images never before possible ( see p. 52).
The UK defence ministry said on Friday it was deploying its Sentinel R1 spy plane to support French troops in Mali.
Like AeroVironment's older gadgets, the Switchblade can stream video feeds from color or infrared cameras to its operator, making it a deft spy plane.
The black and white aerial footage, Iran claims was from a RQ-170 spy plane, was aired by Iranian news agencies and placed on YouTube.
The missionaries' aircraft had been spotted by an American spy plane.
The Air Force uses an array of aircraft, such as the U-2 spy plane, the high-altitude Global Hawk drone or satellites and systems that can gather intelligence from space.
Japan, where the U.S. spy plane is based, urged a swift resolution to the standoff, saying good relations between the U.S. and China are vital for the Asia-Pacific region.
American officials have previously cast doubt on Iran's ability to extract useful intelligence from the captured spy plane, and have said that reverse-engineering a copy would be beyond Iran's technological capability.
The most senior Farc commander ever captured, he was sentenced to 60 years in connection with the kidnapping of three US intelligence operatives after their spy plane crash-landed in rebel territory in 2003.
Thus, a spy plane could not be completely invisible if it were to be used for espionage or, indeed, flown at all, since its pilots would need to know its position relative to the ground.
The Air Force will posthumously award the Silver Star on Friday to Francis Gary Powers, whose capture in 1960 after his spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union became a Cold War flash point.
WSJ: Cold War U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers to Receive Silver Star
Northrop Grumman ( NOC - news - people ) makes an unmanned spy plane called Global Hawk, which can map and image huge areas quickly, but it is expensive, and expensive to fly, and can stay aloft for only a day or so.
From west to east in Vancouver proper, hit Eric Hamber Secondary School, the school featured in both Juno and 21 Jump Street, stop by Burnaby City Hall, shown in Snakes on a Plane, and visit Simon Fraser University, which made an appearance in the Robert Redford political thriller Spy Game.
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