The Boeing Phantom Ray will start taxi tests in July ahead of first flight in late December, but the future of the unmanned strike aircraft after a one-year series of 10 flight tests remains uncertain.
Boeing
has delayed taxi tests from the second quarter to July because the
Phantom Ray's exhaust system had been diverted to a classified
programme, says Daryl Davis, president of Boeing advanced systems. The
exhaust has now been returned from the classified programme, which
Davis described as technology tests to demonstrate reliability and
maintainability, among other things. Continue reading...
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