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Boeing Hails Second Flight For Fighter-Sized Drone

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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

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A senior Boeing [BA] official recently said the company's Phantom Ray unmanned aircraft successfully completed its second flight just one week after a previously announced April 27 first flight from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB, Calif. "The two flights achieved all their objectives," Darryl Davis, president of Boeing's Phantom Ray division, told reporters during a teleconference. The first flight took place following a series of high-speed taxi tests in March that validated ground guidance, navigation and control…

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