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Piloting an unmanned revolution
C4ISR Journal, Sep 01, 2008
Tom Cassidy said “sure” when the owner of General Atomics, J. Neal Blue, asked him to steer the San Diego company into the unmanned aircraft business in 1987. Cassidy, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, had flown 100 types of planes over a 34-year-career, including Russian MiGs obtained by the U.S. Cassidy watched lots of unmanned drones crash, and he thought those accidents spelled opportunity for whoever could solve the unmanned-plane riddle.