VIDEO: Boeing’s badass Phantom Eye spy plane completes taxi tests

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Boeing’s liquid hydrogen-powered high altitude autonomous Phantom Eye plane is inching closer toward flight again. The Phantom Eye completed taxi tests yesterday at Edwards Air Force Base in California and reached speeds of 46 miles an hour. The unique aircraft, with a 150-foot wingspan, is designed for “persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and communications.” In… Read More…

Boeing sees foreign interest in Phantom Eye spy plane

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Boeing has captured widespread attention with its liquid-hydrogen powered Phantom Eye autonomous plane — not just from the United States, but from other countries, as well. That was one of the more interesting tidbits from a telephone press briefing this afternoon with Boeing officials including Drew Mallow, Phantom Eye program manager — offering an update on the… Read More…

First flight for Phantom Eye, Boeing’s liquid-hydrogen powered spy plane

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  Boeing’s liquid-hydrogen powered Phantom Eye spy plane has completed its first autonomous flight. The plane flew for 28 minutes and reached an altitude of 4,080 feet at a cruising speed of 62 knots during the June 1 flight at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California, the company announced this morning…. Read More…