Comment by I.S. on February 7, 2011 at 3:41pm

It's funny this announce of the first flight of the X-47B (aka the killer drone), while in the previous post FAA discusses about the safety of the flight over NYC.

Someone missing the point here?

Ok, ok; I know that the first one is supposed to be designed to kill the bad guys and so on.

I don't want to start any war-pacifist nor any kind of politics discussion here (that's not my intention and this is not the place), but I cannot avoid feeling weird about that.

Comment by Hamish on February 7, 2011 at 3:50pm

d'ya think its packing an arduPilot ?

Comment by Jack Crossfire on February 7, 2011 at 3:52pm

You just know it took an eternity of paperwork to get that 1 flight.

Comment by Rory Paul on February 7, 2011 at 3:58pm

I wonder how may poor buggers they had coming the code to make sure there was not another "Polecat" incident ; )

Comment by Eric on February 7, 2011 at 5:35pm

First flight?! I toured Edwards back in November and I swear I saw this land on the runway right in front of me (followed by two 35's!) Wonder why that one didn't count...

Comment by PeteD on February 8, 2011 at 4:04am

See that landing! Smooth as.

Comment by Wouter van Verre on February 8, 2011 at 1:09pm

@Eric

Maybe you saw the X-47A, which first flew in 2003?

 

Loved the vid! This really is one cool UAV.

 

Comment by Joel Venable on February 9, 2011 at 9:11pm

They said unmanned... not autonomous.  Still, that's one heck of an RC airplane!  I hope the wings fold though or otherwise it would be a nightmare for the flight deck handlers...

Comment by Jeff on February 9, 2011 at 9:22pm

I'm sure they will make the wings fold, it was most likely in the design requirements. Also they did mention the capability to be able to fold the wings.. It will happen! :D

Comment by Michael Zaffuto on February 9, 2011 at 9:28pm

They think of everything....wings fold! :)

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