Boeing today announced that the Phantom Eye high altitude long endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle has conducted its first medium-speed taxi test. The hydrogen-powered aircraft is designed for persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), and communications. The test was conducted March 10 at Edwards Air Force Base in coordination with the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Phantom Eye, traveling atop its launching cart...
By Sub-Lieutenant Emily Todd When HMCS Charlottetown deployed to the Mediterranean Sea for Operation ACTIVE ENDEAVOUR, she took with her a potent surveillance and reconnaissance capability that is new to Canadian warships: the ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle, a small, low-cost, long-endurance UAV built by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing. Among her many tasks during this deployment,Charlottetown is exploring the feasibility of integrating UAVs...
Many conspiracy theorists already believe this can happen. London, Oct 11 A Boeing chief has suggested that the company’s mysterious unmanned space-plane, called X-37B, developed for the US Air Force, could be scaled up and modified to carry astronauts. The company’s X-37B project chief Art Grantz revealed that at least two more versions of the 9-metre long space-plane are...
Boeing engineer George Windsor sat in a small room at a Boeing building in Seattle and picked up an iPhone. After a short series of finger movements and taps, a miniature unmanned aircraft that’s about as big as a pizza box started to hover, turn and fly. In some cases, Windsor tapped on locations on a map on the...
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Aug. 16, 2011 – Boeing today announced it has successfully demonstrated the company’s newest narrowband communications relay aboard two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) — an Insitu ScanEagle and a portable AeroVironment Puma All Environment (AE). The relay was designed to meet the needs of small distributed forces operating in areas where line-of-sight communications are not possible. It...
By Chris Haddox When Boeing’s hydrogen-powered unmanned airborne system (UAS) Phantom Eye takes to the skies for its first flight later this summer, it will be the first Boeing program to sport the new livery that represents Phantom Works, its employees and the unlimited possibilities of things to come for the organization in the future. Phantom Works President Darryl...
Boeing’s Phantom Ray unmanned aircraft completed its first flight April 27 at NASA’s Dryden Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Boeing announced Tuesday. “Autonomous, fighter-sized unmanned aircraft are real, and the (unmanned aerial systems) bar has been raised,” Craig Brown, Boeing’s Phantom Ray program manager said in a news release. “Now I’m eager to see how high...
The Boeing Company’s unmanned hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye high-altitude, long-endurance demonstrator aircraft has arrived at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center for assembly and preparations for flight tests. NASA Dryden is hosting the Boeing flight test operation, providing hangar facilities, engineering, ground test and test range support for the project. The aircraft is expected to fly sometime this year. Flight testing...
Boeing is developing a common control system for its growing fleet of unmanned aerial systems By Marguerite Norgren Against a backdrop of sandy, scrub desert punctuated here and there by jagged mountaintops, a small, birdlike object is launched into billowing clouds above Fort Huachuca, Ariz. Minutes later and miles away, an operator aboard a NATO Airborne Warning & Control System (AWACS)...
ARLINGTON, Va., 8 Dec. 2010. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) engineers at the Boeing Phantom Works Advanced Unmanned Systems-Concept Exploration segment in Irvine, Calif., will adapt the company’s A160T Hummingbird unmanned helicopter to carry electronics payloads for signals intelligence (SIGINT), as well as the BAE Systems Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance-Imaging System (ARGUS-IS) for persistent surveillance. Boeing is doing the work under...
