In the event, the aircraft's RCS level confirmed ECHO 1's predictions.
Explosions and responding gunfire and anti-aircraft fire echoed around the capital, destroying at least one military site and causing blast damage to a nearby university cafeteria.
The Echo catches up with a returning officer from the aircraft carrier, HMS Hermes.
Echoing around the lofty space, it nicely plays up aircraft's double-edged association of freedom and threat.
He hoped that the echoes made by the Beaufighters on the German Lichtenstein radar would attract enemy aircraft and divert them from the bombers.
For example, advances in airborne radio-echo sounding methods now allow routine mapping of Antarctica's ice-covered bedrock surface by aircraft, a task that previously required laborious seismic surveys from tracked vehicles across the ice sheets.
In addition to the Ocean Shield and Echo, seven other ships were participating in Friday's search, along with 10 military planes and four civilian aircraft.
As a US aircraft carrier, a looming mountain of steel, overshadows the broken port, the imagery arouses eerie echoes of shock and awe.
President Bush's dramatic (and premature) landing on an aircraft carrier last May to declare victory in Iraq in full pilot's gear was a visual echo of similarly triumphant scenes in iconic war movies such as Top Gun.
He also echoed the widespread contention that Muslim terrorists did not have the sophistication to commandeer and fly four passenger aircraft in a coordinated attack.
