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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"The Drone Pilot's Handbook gives you the skills and techniques you need to fly and maintain your multicopter drone, tips for tuning it for maximum performance, and a clear graphical guide to where the law will and won't allow you to fly. Intuitive illustrations and stunning aerial photography combine to make this a fun, exciting guide to getting airborne!"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Tom Swift and his friends at the Swift Institute work together to retrieve a drone that was taken by the custodian, Mr. Conway, who they believe is a notorious hacker.
86) Empire games
Author
Series
Empire Games volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world. But Miriam Burgeson, commissioner in charge of the shadowy Ministry of Intertemporal Research and Intelligence--the paratime espionage agency tasked with catalyzing the Commonwealth's great...
87) T-Bone the drone
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Lucas is too busy with his new drone to play Wiffle ball with his friends, but when their only ball is captured by a mean dog, they retrieve it using teamwork and the drone.
89) Drone command
Author
Series
Troy Pearce novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"When China stakes a dubious claim in the hotly disputed waters of the East China Sea, the prime minister of Japan threatens to dispatch the country's naval assets and tear up its antiwar constitution unless the Americans forcefully intervene. The war-weary Americans are reluctant to confront the powerful Chinese navy directly, but if the Japanese provoke a military conflict with their historic enemy, treaty obligations would draw the United States...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Sen Anon is assigned to be a witness for the Department of Transition, recording the changes in the environment as the world begins to rewild. Abandoned by her mother in a cabin somewhere in Upstate New York, Sen will observe the monumental ecological shift known as the Great Transition, the final step in Project Afterworld. Around her drones buzz, cameras watch, microphones listen, digitizing her every move. Privately she keeps a journal of her...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"UNMANNED is an in-depth examination of why seemingly successful wars never seem to end. The problem centers on drones, now accumulated in the thousands, the front end of a spying and killing machine that is disconnected from either security or safety. Drones, however, are only part of the problem. William Arkin shows that security is actually undermined by an impulse to gather as much data as possible, the appetite and the theory both skewed towards...
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Exiled in London for four years, former counter terrorist unit agent Jack Bauer must spring into action to try to save U.S. President James Heller. In retribution for a drone strike he ordered, Heller sits in the crosshairs of the window of an al-Qaeda leader. Along the way, Jack faces his ex-love, Heller's daughter Audrey, who's married to chief of staff Mark Boudreau. Teaming with CTU operative-turned-hackivitst Chloe O'Brian, Jack risks everything...
94) Good kill
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan yearns to get back into the cockpit of a real plane, but he now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned box in the Las Vegas desert. When he and his crew start taking orders directly from the CIA, and the stakes are raised, Egan's nerves, and his relationship with his wife begin to unravel. Revealing the psychological toll drone pilots endure as they are forced to witness the aftermath of their...
95) Kill decision
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Scientist Linda McKinney, having spent most of her career studying the social structure of ants, finds her research being used to run a drone army which is attacking the United States and teams up with Special Ops soldier Odin to try and stop the machines from taking over decisions about when and where to attack.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"The creation of the first weapon in history that can stalk and kill an enemy on the other side of the globe was far more than clever engineering. As Richard Whittle shows in Predator, it was the most profound development in military and aerospace technology since the intercontinental ballistic missile. Once considered fragile toys, drones were long thought to be of limited utility. The Predator itself was resisted at nearly every turn by the military...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Meet Max Axiom, super scientist. Using his amazing powers, Max explores the very workings of the technology we see and use every day. Whether investigating the inner workings of a cell phone, exploring the wonder of space travel, or researching real-world robots and drones, Max does what it takes to reveal how technology works.
Author
Series
Dragons vs. drones volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Marcus and Dree's efforts to organize a quest to find the storied, magical Egg are challenged by the reluctance of Dracone's rebels and dragons and the advancing war against Francis' army of drones.
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