Predator over Big Bend?

[guc126]

Looks like have Predator flights over West Texas/Big Bend hunting the Mexican Taliban (courtesy Laredo Morning Times)

http://lmtonline.com/articles/2010/06/03/news/doc4c074baeb7841649261186.txt

[MilesOfTexas]

Looks like have Predator flights over West Texas/Big Bend hunting the Mexican Taliban (courtesy Laredo Morning Times)

http://lmtonline.com/articles/2010/06/03/news/doc4c074baeb7841649261186.txt

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[MilesOfTexas]

Could this be a predator that found its way into one of my photos back in April?



This was very tiny in my image so I cropped the spot so I could see it better.

[guc126]

Big Bend the site of Texas' first UAV flight

By
Special to the Times
Published: Thursday, June 3, 2010 2:00 AM CDT
Washington, D.C. — Today, Congressman Henry Cuellar, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Border, Maritime and Global Counterterrorism, made the following statement regarding the first unmanned aerial vehicle flight over West Texas on Tuesday by Customs and Border Protection Office of Air and Marine.

On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed the UAV flight occurred over a portion of West Texas on Tuesday.

“On Tuesday, Customs and Border Protection took one more critical step to secure the nation’s southern border,” Cuellar said.“This first UAV flight over West Texas marks the beginning of a critically important new means for providing homeland security in Texas.

By putting eyes in the sky along the Rio Grande, we will gather real-time intelligence on the ground to augment the good work of federal, state and local law enforcement on the border.

“I applaud CBP’s initiative to further develop the UAV program in Texas, and I look forward to FAA’s certification of flight for the remainder of the Texas-Mexico border this summer. In the meantime, I will continue to work with my Texas congressional colleagues to see this program through.”


Working with the FAA


In May, the Federal Aviation Administration approved CBP UAV flights from Arizona to Big Bend, Texas.

Another flight approval is pending before the FAA to enable UAV flights along the remainder of the Texas-Mexico border, in addition to the state’s coastal waters.

The FAA is expected to make a decision on that certification by late August.

The first Texas-bound CBP UAV flew Tuesday from Arizona to New Mexico to the El Paso/Big Bend region of the state.

Currently, there are five CBP Predator B UAVs deployed to the nation’s northern and southern borders.

Three are stationed at the CBP Operations Center in Sierra Vista, Ariz., and two are located at the CBP Operations Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Since January, Congressman Cuellar has been working to create a UAV mission operations center in Corpus Christi.

If approved by the FAA, the UAV stationed at this facility would have the ability to fly along the Rio Grande between El Paso and Brownsville, in addition to the Texas Gulf Coast.

[East Texan]

OK MOT guess you weren't crazy after all.

[MilesOfTexas]

OK MOT guess you weren't crazy after all.

After all that time riding in your truck, and you think I'm not crazy?!?!