[singpilot]

I worked for two years on a program called Outrider; very similar issues and procedures. Most of our program went on to or back to Predator. We were all R/C geeks, and being on a test site with open, restricted airspace, used to fly our R/C stuff during long delays (breaks) on the test series. We had an ugly stick that fired little Estes rockets.

I have always wondered if the Colonel and that man with the funny hat that used to come watch us firing those things off got the idea from that little field in Hondo, Texas so many years ago.