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Boeing moves forward with Phantom Eye

26th June 2010 - 09:24 GMT | by Tony Osborne in St Louis, Missouri

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Boeing's long-endurance Phantom Eye UAV is set to begin flight trials from NASA's Dryden facility in California in the first quarter of 2011.

The hydrogen-powered twin-engined technology demonstrator is currently being assembled inside an anonymous hangar outside St Louis by a six-strong engineering team, who plan to have the aircraft unveiled in mid-August.

The Phantom Eye demonstrator has been designed to operate at an altitude of 65,000 feet and remain there for four days while carrying a payload weighing 450 lb. Phantom Eye is a 60% scale demonstrator of a planned HALE UAV that could operate with a 1,000 lb

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Tony was deputy editor of Defence Helicopter and Rotorhub magazines before joining Aviation Week in …

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