US Navy's UCAS completes first flight

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 28 Feb 2011, 18:02

I keep forgetting to post this here in case some of you haven't heard yet:

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/ ... calreports

The real milestone will be when they can get it to land autonomously onboard a carrier.

Might be fun to model this little guy, pretty simple shape and the best part, no loadouts to do!

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 28 Feb 2011, 23:55

And the video from the flight..... This thing reminds me of something out of a movie, except it really is real!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDnvxNdez84

LEBTowerGuy · Post by **LEBTowerGuy** » 01 Mar 2011, 00:20

wasn't there a movie with that dude from Ray and Jessica Alba in it, where one of those tried to blow up the world?

HorusJ · Post by **HorusJ** » 01 Mar 2011, 05:02

LEBTowerGuy wrote:wasn't there a movie with that dude from Ray and Jessica Alba in it, where one of those tried to blow up the world?

"UCAV E.D.I has the ball"

Kurosaki · Post by **Kurosaki** » 04 Mar 2011, 02:42

Landing in the video looked a tad fast (rate of decent)...but I guess its not that heavy of a craft anyways.

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 04 Mar 2011, 03:39

Probably programmed to use the same rate of decent that will be needed to land on the carrier.

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