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    The Ryan Model 147 Lightning Bug is a jet-powered drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle, produced and developed by Ryan Aeronautical from the earlier Ryan Firebee...
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    vehicle's success led to Ryan being asked to develop a reconnaissance version, which became the highly successful Model 147 Fire Fly and Lightning Bug...
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    The Ryan Aeronautical Company was founded by T. Claude Ryan in San Diego, California, in 1934. It became part of Teledyne in 1969, and of Northrop Grumman...
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    North Vietnamese Navy initiated America's highly classified UAVs (Ryan Model 147, Ryan AQM-91 Firefly, Lockheed D-21) into their first combat missions of...
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    any other type in service with any nation. The United States lost 578 Ryan Model 147 Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) (554 over Vietnam and 24 over China)...
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  • by the US Marine Corps Ryan Model 147 Lightning Bug was a drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle during the 1960s USS Assail (AM-147) was a United States Navy...
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    electronic monitoring, such as the RB-47, RB-57, Boeing RC-135 and the Ryan Model 147 drones. Since the Cold War much of the strategic reconnaissance aircraft...
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    Flak training; the Ryan Firebee was a jet-powered target drone developed into long-range reconnaissance UAVs: the Ryan Model 147 Fire Fly and Lightning...
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    Wayback Machine Beechcraft Model 18 Wikipedia - Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star Wikipedia - Boeing RC-135 Wikipedia - Ryan Model 147 MQ-1B Predator USAF Factsheet...
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    saccharin. Chlorosulfonic acid has been used as an anti-contrail agent in Ryan Model 147 reconnaissance drones, and to produce smoke screens. ClSO3H reacts violently...
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    Cookie", Firebee target drones were modified for reconnaissance as the Ryan Model 147. The drones were test flown over North Korea and China after the Gulf...
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    reconnaissance aircraft crewmembers also contributed to U.S. development of the Ryan Model 147 RPV (Remotely Piloted Vehicle) unmanned drone aircraft which were partly...
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    Service ceiling: 50,000 m (160,000 ft) North American X-15 Lockheed D-21 Ryan Model 147 "Cloud Shadow Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)". Airforce Technology. Shepherd...
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  • later conflicts and the Firebee drone was soon to be developed into the Ryan Model 147 series which saw extensive use in the Vietnam War. Korean coverage was...
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    crews." During the operation the USAF depended almost entirely on the Ryan Model 147 Buffalo Hunter AQM-34L/M unmanned aerial vehicles for bomb damage assessment...
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    to 1979. Aerial reconnaissance of mainland China continued with the Ryan Model 147 "Lightning Bug" RPVs (Remotely Piloted Vehicles); several of these drones...
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    to perform long-range reconnaissance, especially into China. The Ryan Model 147 Lightning Bug reconnaissance drone was enjoying success in Vietnam in...
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    successful. A series of reconnaissance drones derived from the Firebee, the Ryan Model 147 Lightning Bug series, were used by the US to spy on North Vietnam, Communist...
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  • Ryan Model 147 drones. Replaced Blue Springs on 1 August 1967. Renamed Bumpy Action in December 1968 Bumpy Action – Ryan AQM-34 (formerly Model 147)...
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  • Reflex Lightning Bug, an American kit aircraft design of the 1990s Ryan Model 147 Lightning Bug, an unmanned aerial vehicle Lightning Bug (comics), a...
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    Ryan BQM-34 Firebee, target (1951) Ryan YQM-98 Ryan Model 147 Lightning Bug, reconnaissance (1962) Ryan Q-2 Ryan KDA Ryan YQM-98A Compass Cope R, reconnaissance...
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    56 kN) thrust Model 356-16 Model 356-24 Model 356-27B Model 356-29A (J69-T-41A) J69 Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar Cessna T-37 Tweet Radioplane Q-1 Ryan BQM-34 Firebee...
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    President Walter Scheel. The U.S. Army reconnaissance drone "Tom Cat", a Ryan Model 147 Lightning Bug vehicle that had been used for 67 missions since 1967...
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  • 200 m) Related development Teledyne Ryan Scarab Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Ryan Model 147 This article contains material that...
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    his assistant. 15 November China shot down the first of hundreds of Ryan Model 147 drone aircraft that the United States would send into Chinese airspace...
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  • Chinese Shenyang J-6 managed to bring down a United States Armed Forces Ryan Model 147 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft in the stratosphere, becoming the first...
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    Shahed drones (redirect from Shahed 147)
    Shahed 136 (also called "Geran-2" in Russian service) Shahed 141 Shahed 147 Shahed 149 Gaza Shahed 161 Shahed 171 Simorgh Shahed 178 Shahed 191 (also...
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    Dayle Haddon (category Female models from Quebec)
    Dayle Haddon (May 26, 1948 – December 27, 2024) was a Canadian model and actress, known for promoting anti-aging products manufactured by L'Oréal. Additionally...
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    Arielle Kebbel (category Female models from Florida)
    Arielle Kebbel (born February 19, 1985) is an American actress and model. She has starred on several television series, including Gilmore Girls (2003–2004)...
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    psychology and psychometrics, the Big 5 or five-factor model (FFM) is a widely-used scientific model for describing how personality traits differ across...
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