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Boeing is scheduled to deliver six QF-16 target drones to the US Air Force before the end of the year, a senior company official says.
"We will be delivering six aircraft by the end of this year," says Torbjorn Sjogren, vice president of Boeing's global maintenance and upgrades business. "We have hadfirst flight. We have tested various aspects of the unmanned capability, but we're still in the pre-EMD [pre-Engineering Manufacturing Development] phase."
Though designed to be flown with or without a pilot, the QF-16's first flight was flown on 4 May with a human inside the cockpit. The USAF requires that the jets retain an optional manning capability.
Boeing is modifying the retired Lockheed Martin-built F-16s into target drones as part of an initial $72 million pre-Engineering Manufacturing Development (EMD) contract that it received March 2010. The aircraft are all single-seat models from Blocks 15, 25 and 30
"We will be delivering six aircraft by the end of this year," says Torbjorn Sjogren, vice president of Boeing's global maintenance and upgrades business. "We have hadfirst flight. We have tested various aspects of the unmanned capability, but we're still in the pre-EMD [pre-Engineering Manufacturing Development] phase."
Though designed to be flown with or without a pilot, the QF-16's first flight was flown on 4 May with a human inside the cockpit. The USAF requires that the jets retain an optional manning capability.
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Boeing is modifying the retired Lockheed Martin-built F-16s into target drones as part of an initial $72 million pre-Engineering Manufacturing Development (EMD) contract that it received March 2010. The aircraft are all single-seat models from Blocks 15, 25 and 30
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