Mr bin Laden's cadre has shown considerable flexibility, variously deploying planes, trucks and boats as weapons.
Since the initial lag, the government has rolled out a massive relief effort, deploying planes, ships, helicopters and trucks and more than 10,000 troops to deliver tons of aid.
Last week, in fact, US Airways said that it planned to cut back on operations at its hub in Pittsburgh to deploy planes here and reorient its operations to offer more direct flights, mirroring those operated by Southwest and other low-fare carriers.
"The military deployed planes, helicopters, submarines and destroyers to find and pull people out of the sea.
The U.S. military last month also deployed planes, troops and air crew in Uganda to help find elusive warlord Joseph Kony.
For three days, beginning on September 26, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration deployed planes into the hurricane as part of Project Stormfury, the fourth hurricane to be a part of the weather control experiment.
More brazenly, 13 Hours also sustains the now firmly debunked theory that American forces could have sent air support to help end the attack, but that the military chose not to deploy planes that could have reached Benghazi.
Less compelling are his abstract oil paintings from the twenties and thirties, mostly deploying geometric planes that change color where they seem to overlap.
The logistics of deploying such planes is so complicated, however, that it's difficult to change their routes in response to changing weather conditions.
He worked on developing and deploying spy planes like the U-2, the Lockheed A-12 and the SR71 Blackbird, and several generations of Corona reconnaissance satellites, which dropped film canisters that were then snapped up in midflight by aircraft.
Dr. Le Berre, who had mapped thousands of breeding sites for black flies during the 1960s, directed aerial attacks on them for the international control program, deploying small planes and helicopters to spray insecticides.
