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Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway will portray an Air Force fighter pilot reassigned to operate a drone in a new play called "Grounded." (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Anne Hathaway cast as drone pilot in play

By Stephen Losey on January 23, 2015 UAV

Actress Anne Hathaway, who won the 2012 Academy Award for her supporting role in “Les Miserables,” is going to star in an off-Broadway one-woman play about an Air Force fighter pilot who is reassigned to fly a drone. “Grounded,” by George Brant, is about a “swaggering pilot, whose work day involves killing from afar and home life includes a husband longing for her to unwind and a daughter who plays with pink ponies,” as the New York Times described the play last year. A theater magazine called TDF Stages further described the play, which will start April 7 at New York’s…

Drone pilots take center stage in ‘Good Kill’

By Oriana Pawlyk on January 7, 2015 Air Force, UAV

The Air Force has had cameos in the films like ‘Godzilla,’ ‘Iron Man,’ and an episode or two of ‘Homeland.’ But in ‘Good Kill,’ audiences can zero-in on the drone pilot realm where war becomes an arbitrary arena. Not before long, U.S. Air Force pilot-turned-drone operator Tom Egan (Ethan Hawke) questions if his ground-based cockpit missions (as one drone pilot calls it “warheads on foreheads”) are too much to handle. Hawke’s character — logging 3,000 hours in F-16s, six tours and 200 combat sorties — at some point decides that returning to the front lines would be better than his…

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