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New drone is loaded on aircraft carrier for next phase of testing
Last edited Wed Nov 28, 2012, 10:34 AM - Edit history (1)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-navy-drone-test-20121128,0,1433758.story
New drone is loaded on aircraft carrier for next phase of testing
By W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times
November 28, 2012
The U.S. Navy's new bat-winged experimental drone has been delivered to an aircraft carrier to undergo handling tests aboard the ship.
The Navy said that sailors aboard the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman took delivery of the drone Monday from Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, where it had been undergoing tests.
Truman is the first aircraft carrier to conduct test operations for an unmanned aircraft.
The drone, named the X-47B, is designed to perform one of aviation's most difficult maneuvers: landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier. What's even more remarkable is that it will do that not only without a pilot in the cockpit, but without a pilot at all.