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Monday, June 04, 2007

Super Hornet Demonstrates Unpiloted Approaches

Researchers are analyzing data from the first "hands-off" live-fly operations around an aircraft carrier--information that could lead to a specially modified F/A-18F Super Hornet landing on a ship without a pilot touching the controls in as little as two years.

A pair of Boeing test pilots just completed a series of unannounced landing approaches and waveoffs with the USS Harry S. Truman operating near Norfolk, Va., on May 17-18.

They closed to within 420 ft. of the carrier before conducting a ship-controlled waveoff. The test aircraft--the first two-seat F/A-18F built--has been reconfigured as a surrogate unmanned combat air system (UCAS).

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