About Global Hawks
This is education on the actual military Global Hawks and about God's creation...Hawks. Please read the very first post and only one in September 2008 of how this blog came to be.
Global Hawks Can autonomously taxi, take off, fly, remain on station capturing imagery, return and land. Ground-based operators monitor UAV health and status, and can change navigation and sensor plans during flight as necessary.
Global Hawk High Altitude Long Endurance reconnaissance system consists of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), ground segment and communications system providing the US Air Force and joint battlefield commanders with near-real-time, high-resolution, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance imagery. "The Global Hawk UAV-3 provided unprecedented intelligence information to battlefield commanders almost continuously since being pressed into service in 2001, deploying three times in support of the global war on terrorism," said George Guerra, Northrop Grumman vice president for High-Altitude Long-Endurance Systems. "The men and women who built and operated this aircraft take great pride in its historic performance, logging more than 4,800 flight hours, 167 missions and hundreds of thousands of images." "The Global Hawk points to the future of our Air Force," said retired Maj. Gen. Charles D. Metcalf,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RQ-4_Global_Hawk
• the Sharp-shinned Hawk and others. These are mainly woodland birds with long tails and high visual acuity, hunting by sudden dashes from a concealed perch.
• More generally (especially in North America) to mean falcons or small to medium-sized members of the Accipitridae - the family which includes the "true hawks" (Accipiters) as well as eagles, kites, harriers and buzzards.
In February 2005, Canadian ornithologist Louis Lefebvre announced a method of measuring avian "IQ" in terms of their innovation in feeding habits.[1] Hawks were named among the most intelligent birds based on his scale.
Hawks are widely reputed to have visual acuity several times that of a normal human being. This is due to the many photoreceptors in the retina (up to 1,000,000 per square mm for Buteo, against 200,000 for humans), an exceptional number of nerves connecting these receptors to the brain, and an indented fovea, which magnifies the central portion of the visual field.
Global Hawks Can autonomously taxi, take off, fly, remain on station capturing imagery, return and land. Ground-based operators monitor UAV health and status, and can change navigation and sensor plans during flight as necessary.
Global Hawk High Altitude Long Endurance reconnaissance system consists of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), ground segment and communications system providing the US Air Force and joint battlefield commanders with near-real-time, high-resolution, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance imagery. "The Global Hawk UAV-3 provided unprecedented intelligence information to battlefield commanders almost continuously since being pressed into service in 2001, deploying three times in support of the global war on terrorism," said George Guerra, Northrop Grumman vice president for High-Altitude Long-Endurance Systems. "The men and women who built and operated this aircraft take great pride in its historic performance, logging more than 4,800 flight hours, 167 missions and hundreds of thousands of images." "The Global Hawk points to the future of our Air Force," said retired Maj. Gen. Charles D. Metcalf,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RQ-4_Global_Hawk
• the Sharp-shinned Hawk and others. These are mainly woodland birds with long tails and high visual acuity, hunting by sudden dashes from a concealed perch.
• More generally (especially in North America) to mean falcons or small to medium-sized members of the Accipitridae - the family which includes the "true hawks" (Accipiters) as well as eagles, kites, harriers and buzzards.
In February 2005, Canadian ornithologist Louis Lefebvre announced a method of measuring avian "IQ" in terms of their innovation in feeding habits.[1] Hawks were named among the most intelligent birds based on his scale.
Hawks are widely reputed to have visual acuity several times that of a normal human being. This is due to the many photoreceptors in the retina (up to 1,000,000 per square mm for Buteo, against 200,000 for humans), an exceptional number of nerves connecting these receptors to the brain, and an indented fovea, which magnifies the central portion of the visual field.
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