Jun 24 2010
More Phantom Eye details come out
Boeing has revealed more details about the timeline, plans and capabilities of the high-altitude long endurance Phantom Eye unmanned aircraft system.
Phantom Works President Darryl Davis says the hydrogen-powered, subscale demonstrator is on track to fly in January 2011.
Schedules posted inside the Phantom Eye production hangar during a press tour on 24 June narrowed the date to around 20 January.
Final assembly of the Phantom Eye fuselage is within weeks of completion. One of two 2.4m (8ft-)diameter fuel tanks has already been installed inside the exposed frames of the centre fuselage.
The tail of the Phantom Eye was scheduled to be delivered several hours after the press tour completed on the morning of 24 June, Davis says.
Perhaps only 40 parts remain to be delivered to complete final assembly, says Andrew Mallow, Phantom Works director of ad
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