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First cat launch X-47B
Dammit. Should read "First carrier launch X-47B"
Cool thing.
Too much watching cat pictures eh?Originally Posted by C.Puffs
The videos are private. Do can you post another link?
It's up now.
So I guess the guys with the green flight suits and the white joystick contraptions control it through taxi and onto the catapult. I would assume it navigates autonimously after launch? Looked like they had trouble taxiing the thing but I guess it will get better with experience.
What gives you that idea?
Every single time I see this baby, I cannot fathom how big she really is. Every time. In my head, those unmanned things are still tiny toylike flying things, and not what they really are, huge and very badass.
Congratulation to USN and to its personnel for the achievement!
I'll let him answer but my only thought is because of the way the landing gear/tire looked so servo like? I don't know, I didn't get the impression that there were difficulties - taking it easy with baby steps maybe.
I'm fantasizing but it would be pretty dang cool to see a bunch of these launch off a deck in a hurry. All them sorties.
X-47 flys off a Aircraft Carrier.
Sweet Jesus!
wonder how the pilot would be feeling, it would be same as the one he did in simulator. Another milestone for USN and few year down the line we see China doing with look a like aircraft.
isn't this similar as this http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...d.php?t=226524 ?
Making something that looks like it is one thing. Making something that performs like it, is something else. There's lots of things in china that look like the real thing.few year down the line we see China doing with look a like aircraft.
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