Sunday, August 15, 2010

UPDATE: Boeing's X-45 UCAV

In a prior post, I covered Boeing's X-45 UCAV.  Here's a brief update on the program:

Boeing says that its Phantom Ray will fly to NASA’s Dryden, CA flight test center as a piggyback passenger on NASA’s Shuttle Carrying 747, as part of a Boeing-funded Commercial Space Act Agreement with NASA. Boeing decided that the Shuttle Carrier would be the most cost-effective way to transport the Phantom Ray, and developed an attachment to allow the Ray to connect to the structure that normally carries the much larger Space Shuttle.

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