The Navy over the weekend performed a series of flight tests with the unmanned X-47B that the service said showed unmanned aircraft are compatible with manned carrier aviation without significant impact to normal flight operations. The first series of manned-unmanned operations began Sunday when the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) launched an F/A-18 and an X-47B. After an eight-minute flight, the X-47B executed an arrested landing, folded its wings and taxied out of the landing area. The deck-based operator used newly-developed…
