abe karem while the tricks to making a plane that can soar well and in his los angeles garage, he built the uav technology demonstrator that was truly innovative. karem caught at the albatross, naming it after one of nature's greatest going earths. the albatross offered a nominal 48 hours without refueling, which was far longer than any military uav ever thrown up that kind. the demonstrator, karem got a contract from the research agency darpa to develop a larger uav for the armed services. darpa named that little drone. in 1989 a senior official wrote in a magazine article providing an order of magnitude increase in a lifetime recorded by previous uavs have let the joint chiefs of staff to establish a new endurance category and an unmanned aircraft master plan ordered by congress. yet largely for personal and bureaucratic reasons in a detail in the book, karem was unable to sell its trust of the defense department and the company he created to build them what a great 1990. thanks to some other unorthodox thinkers, abe karem's ideas come his revolutionary ideas didn't die when his compa

abe karem redesigned the net 750 and six months later the new predator made its first play. and now i would like to elaborate on what i said this book tells a story about the air force and the story about the cia. one of the first things they did when i began work on this book that in 2009 was to find officers who had flown the predator or been involved in the program in some other way and interview them. the more air force people he interviewed, the more i heard that i really needed to talk to a civilian air force official at the pentagon, a former colonel with an unforgettable nickname and i soon found out an unforgettable personality. snake clark knows more about the predator than just about anybody people say. snape was his real name. i don't know. everybody called him snake. well, as former air force secretary well knows, snake's will name is james g clerk. the air force job title these days is director of intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance innovation. but here is how i describe him. in reality, clark worked -- idea lack [laughter] >> at least when you put the

but, thanks to some other unorthodox thinkers, abe karem's ideas, his revolutionary ideas about uavswhen his company did. . . they made the cover of life magazine. by flying a pace or around latin america during summer vacation. they decided to make the trip trip either way before they ever took their first flying lesson. [laughter] and that's because they were not just sightseeing. the blue brothers were born and bred entrepreneurs and hoped to find business opportunities they might pursue after college. and as a result of that trip after they graduate from yale, the established a -- on nicaragua. that venture on the last of the couple of years because the first of many but by the 1980s. now, as the name success began as a nuclear energy company and it still is one. but it got into the drone business after the blue brothers rotted from chevron in 1986. they had a number of reasons for thinking that uav might be a good investment among their motives was the desire to help the rebels in nicaragua overthrow the mini status who in 1979 had overthrown the business partners. the blue brot