First flight of the Phantom Ray (photos)

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Boeing this week revealed that its autonomous unmanned aircraft, the dashingly named Phantom Ray, had made its first-ever solo flight, just six days earlier. The sleek flying wing, a one-off prototype for now, portends a new class of military drones--aircraft that can pilot themselves in a range of missions from attack to reconnaissance to more mundane tasks such as aerial refueling.

Photo by Boeing

Caption by Jonathan E. Skillings





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