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E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Flies First Mission System Flight

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Thursday, December 20th, 2007

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By Geoff Fein The Navy's all-weather, airborne early warning battle management aircraft, the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, flew its first mission system flight, with its radar operating, earlier this month, and the second aircraft has begun flight testing at Northrop Grumman's [NOC] St. Augustine, Fla., facility. The mission system flight lasted four and a half hours and included more than two and a half hours of radar operation, a Naval Air Systems Command spokeswoman told Defense Daily earlier this week. "The…

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