Patrolling the Nation's Coasts
In addition to the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), large U.S. Navy blimps assisted with coastal air patrol. Housed in giant hangars, they operated out of several location...
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The Civil Air Patrol has suspended its national commander after investigating allegations that another patrol member took Air Force exams for him, a patrol official said.The suspension of Maj. Gen....
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The Civil Air Patrol has removed its national commander after investigating complaints that another patrol member took Air Force tests for him.Maj. Gen. Antonio J. Pineda denied that anyone took te...
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The search for millionaire aviator Steve Fossett, who disappeared a month ago in northern Nevada, was suspended again after what the Civil Air Patrol described as one of the largest efforts to loca...
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Nearly two weeks after Steve Fossett disappeared in the Nevada desert, authorities plan to assess the rescue operation as hopes dim of finding the adventurer alive.Crews searched by air and ground ...
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A half-dozen Civil Air Patrol planes flew the eastern Colorado plains Monday, searching for motorist trapped amid 10-foot snowdrifts and plotting the location of cattle stranded and possibly starvi...
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Pilots brushed off a series of false sightings and scoured Nevada's high desert Saturday as the massive aerial search for Steve Fossett grew more urgent nearly a week after the adventurer's disappe...
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Volunteers have searched and re-searched an area nearly twice the size of New Jersey for missing millionaire Steve Fossett, and now, they're planning to search it again.Fossett, the famed survivali...
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High winds kept some planes from searching for missing aviator Steve Fossett on Thursday, while ground crews checked out tips about planes that flew in the area the day he disappeared."We hope to b...
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Leaders of the search for Steve Fossett further scaled back the aerial operation Wednesday but insisted they were not giving up on finding the millionaire adventurer, who has now been missing for 1...
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High above a landscape of canyons and shadows, veteran pilot Jim Herd sees a tiny flash on a mountainside. A mirror? A piece of wreckage?A closer look reveals a prospector's small mine, the reflect...
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Patrolling the Nation's Coasts
Chief of Civil Air Patrol suspended
