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The Future Aircraft Technology Enhancements (FATE) program is a program to develop new technologies. It is being run by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The X-39 aircraft designation is reseved for use with FATE by the USAF.

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+The '''Future Aircraft Technology Enhancements''' (FATE) program is a program to develop new technologies. It is being run by the [[Air Force Research Laboratory]] (AFRL) and the [[Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]] (DARPA). The '''X-39''' aircraft designation is reseved for use with FATE by the USAF.
-'''Sir Robin Day''', [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (Born, [[Hampstead]], [[London]] 24th October 1923; died 6th August 2000) was a British political broadcaster and commentator of note.
-==Personal Life==
+==References==
+*[http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/aviation/1280701.html?page=1&c=y Battle Of The X-Planes]
-He was the son of a telephone engineer who became telephone manager at [[Gloucester]].
+*[http://www.futurefirepower.com/category/aircraft/ Future Aircraft Technology]
+*[http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/6236/x391jq7.jpg]
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-Day had problems relating to women. The broadcaster [[Joan Bakewell]] recalled that while he was professional while in the office: <blockquote>
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-'' 'Socially he was a menace. There was no subtlety in his manner: at office parties he would attack head on. "Do the men you interview fancy you? Do they stare at your legs? Do they stare at your breasts? Do you sleep with many of them?" ... Whenever he loomed in sight, I made myself scarce.<ref>Joan Bakewell ''The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography'', 2003, Sceptre, p234-5.</ref>' ''
-</blockquote>
-Later, broadcaster [[Anna Ford]] pushed Day into a bush as a result of his unwanted advances.
+[[Category:United States experimental aircraft 2000-2009|X-39]]
-==Education==
-Day briefly attended [[The Crypt School, Gloucester]] and later [[Bembridge School]] on the [[Isle of Wight]]. Day attended [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford]] and, while a student, was elected president of the [[Oxford Union]] debating society. Day also took part in the [[ESU USA Tour]], the debating tour of the United States run by the [[English-Speaking Union]].
+[[nl:X-39]]
-==War Service==
-He served with the army [[East Africa]], where he reached the rank of [[Captain]] but was demoted to [[Lieutenant]] as part of a cull of rear-echelon jobs,
-==Barrister==
-He was called to [[barrister|the Bar]] in [[1952]], but practised only briefly. In his memoirs he recorded that he secured the acquittal of a lorry-driver accused of indecent exposure by persuading the magistrates that the man had been "shaking the drops from his person" after urinating, and by getting the man's young wife to testify, wearing a tight sweater, that she and her husband enjoyed a healthy love life.
-==Media==
-Day spent almost his entire career in [[journalism]]. He rose to prominence on the new [[Independent Television News]] (ITN) from 1955, when he was the first British journalist to interview [[Gamal Abdel Nasser|President Nasser of Egypt]] after the [[Suez Crisis]].
-On television, he presented ''[[Panorama (TV series)|Panorama]]'' and chaired ''[[Question Time (television)|Question Time]]'' (1979–89), and on radio was presenter of ''[[The World At One|The World at One]]'' from 1979 to 1987. His incisive and sometimes - by the standards of the day - abrasive interviewing style, together with his  heavy-rimmed spectacles and trademark [[bow tie]], made him an instantly recognisable and frequently impersonated figure over five decades.
-He became known in British broadcasting as '' 'the Grand Inquisitor' '' for his abrasive interviewing politicians, a style out of keeping with the British media's culture of deference to authority that prevailed during the early days of his career. In [[1981]], he was knighted for his services to broadcasting.
-In October 1982, during an interview with the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Secretary of State for Defence]] [[John Nott]], pursuing cuts in defence expenditure, he posed the question: "But why should the public, on this issue, as regards the future of the Royal Navy, believe you, a transient, here-today and, if I may say so, gone-tomorrow politician, [a reference to Nott's announcement that he was to stand down at the next [[General Election]]] rather than a senior officer of many years?" Nott rose, removed his microphone, and said "I'm sorry, I'm fed up with this interview. Really, it's ridiculous" and walked off the set. Nott's autobiography in 2003 was called ''Here Today Gone Tomorrow: Recollections of an Errant Politician''.
-''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' often used Day as a reference, including the '' 'Eddie Baby'' ' sketch in which [[John Cleese]] turns to the camera and states: '' 'Robin Day's got a hedgehog named Frank.' '' In another sketch, [[Eric Idle]] said he was able to return his '' 'Robin Day tie' '' to [[Harrod's]]. He was also spoofed (as ''Robin Yad'') on ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies']]'' episode '' '[[Saturday Night Grease]]' ''.
-Day published two autobiographies; '' 'Day by Day' '' in 1975 and '' 'Grand Inquisitor' '' in 1989.
-==Politics==
-In the [[United Kingdom general election, 1959|1959 General Election]] he stood as a [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] candidate for [[Hereford (constituency)|Hereford]] but failed to win.
-==Reference==
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-== External links ==
-* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/870103.stm Sir Robin Day: 1923&ndash;2000] from the [[BBC]]
-* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/870214.stm Tributes to Sir Robin Day] from the [[BBC]]
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