Authors: Richard Whittle
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Copyright © 2014 by Richard Whittle. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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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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Jacket design by Brad Foltz
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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)âISBN 978-0-8050-9965-2 (ebook)  1.  Drone aircraftâUnited StatesâHistory.  2.  Drone aircraftâUnited StatesâDesign and construction.  3.  Karem, Abraham, 1937â  4.  Aerospace industriesâCalifornia, SouthernâHistory.  I.  Title.
  UG1242.D7W57 2014
  623.74'69âdc23                             2014014070
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First Edition: September 2014