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This Month's Covers....
Front and Back Cover Background: The cockpit and pilots of an Osprey that flies in both airplane and helicopter mode. Marine
Lt. Col. Kevin Gross, V-22 Osprey Integrated Test Team's Government Flight Test Director, seated left, and Marine Maj. Gen.
Jim Amos, Commanding General 3rd Marine Air Wing, pose for a photo while making preparations for the General's aircraft
familiarization flight. U.S. Navy photo (Patuxent River, MD, USA, January 9, 2004) by Randy Teufel (RELEASED).
Front Cover: Upper inset: An Image called "Quadcopter" by Jens Vanhooydonck (Zelf gemaakt) CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons (2013). Lower inset: A 2D-ISAR image of a SYMA quadcopter. This graphic appears in Figure 6 of the article, "RCS Measurements and ISAR Images of Small UAVs," by Pieraccini,
Miccinesi, and Rojhini in this issue on pages 28-32. Unlike the Osprey whose cockpit and pilots are pictured in the background,
the vehicles pictured in both insets are unmanned.
Back Cover: Upper inset: 2D-ISAR image of an AirVision quadcopter. This graphic appears in Figure 7 in the article, "RCS Measurements and ISAR Images of Small UAVs," by Pieraccini et al. in this issue on pages 28-32. Lower inset: Photo of an Aeryon Scout
UAV in flight. By Dkroetsch (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. As on the front cover, the inset vehicles are
both unmanned, different from the Osprey whose cockpit and human pilots are pictured in the background photo.

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