Monday, February 27, 2006

Model airplane designed to help police shows promise / City of Merced Newspaper, 6 Feb 2006

http://www.mercedsearch.com/news/777.htmlAlison Shackelford Hewitt
"The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department unveiled what could become its latest weapon for fighting crime - a high-tech model plane equipped with a video camera - and said a SWAT team will begin testing the new surveillance technology within two months. The four-pound plane has a tiny camera in its belly that can be used for everything from surveilling buildings and tracking fleeing burglars to searching for lost hikers and missing children. The 'SkySeer' will be donated to the department by Chang Industry for field testing. The company worked with the Sheriff's Department for about three years to produce the unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV."