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| X-47B prepares for touch and go. Navy photo |
ATLANTIC OCEAN -- The Navy's X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator (UCAS-D) has performed touch and go landings aboard the aircraft carrier
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). It's another first for the Northrop Grumman-built drone. Earlier in the week the ship conducted the first-ever launch of the UAV. The UCAS-D program plans to conduct shore-based arrested landings of the X-47B at NAS Patuxent River, Md., in the coming months before final carrier-based arrestments later in 2013. (Source:
NNS, 05/17/13)
Previous Gulf Coast note: Northrop Grumman builds portions of two drones in Moss Point, Miss.; naval aviators receive initial training in Northwest Florida.
