Boeing Phantom Ray

Boeing's Phantom Ray unmanned airborne system (UAS) is an in-house "one off" technology demonstrator that will serve as a flying test bed for multiple, new, advanced technologies including:

-- intel / surveil / recon
-- locate / neutralize enemy air defenses
-- hunter / killer missions
-- electronic warfare
-- autonomous aerial refueling

Boeing in-house project:
-- designed and developed by Boeing's Phantom Works division
-- uses technologies Boeing pioneered in prototype for Joint-Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS)
-- funded and built by Boeing Defense, Space & Security in St. Louis
-- no tax dollars used

Key suppliers include:
-- General Electric-Aviation · propulsion and power distribution
-- Honeywell · brake system
-- Woodward-HRT · flight control actuation system
-- Crane Hydro-Aire · brake controls
-- Heroux-Devtek · landing gear

Length ...................... 36 ft ........... 10.9 m
Wingspan ................. 50 ft ........... 15.2 m
Gross Weight ........... 36,500 lbs .. 16,556 kg
Operating Altitude .... 40,000 ft ......12,192 m
Cruise Mach ... 0.8 ... 614 mph ..... 988 km/h
Engine ...................... F404-GE-102D

Project started in 2008

First flight: April 27, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FBaryVzqys

Photo of Phantom Ray (2100x1500 pixels): http://operatorchan.org/v/src/v52305_Phantom%20Ray%20Team.jpg

Boeing Unveils Unmanned Phantom Ray Demonstrator (PRESS RELEASE)
St. Louis (May 10, 2010) http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1202

video produced by Boeing Communications -- copyright © 2009 Boeing
http://boeing.com/bds/phantom_works
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I worked as a consultant on the B1-B bomber (Rockwell Lakewood/Anaheim) & the "glass cockpit" and Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) for Boeing's 747-400s (Rockwell Downey).
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[doceigen]

By the way, it would have been SO MUCH NICER, if Boeing had decided to design in a prone Horton style pilot 'chair'... and NOT make this 'unmanned'.

[MediaBlitzDIR]

@doceigen - This aircraft is only intended to be used to test other technologies being developed – there are no plans of manufacturing more than the single plane shown in the video. A piloted version of this plane would have been cost prohibitive.

[jasonroxorz]

@MediaBlitzDIR Bet this is a little awkward for you, since this crashed in the Persian desert last month... WOOPS...

[MediaBlitzDIR]

@jasonroxorz - The drone that crashed in the Persian desert last month was similar to the Phantom Ray but it was not the Phantom Ray.

[JoyFulDoom]

Were the panels on the aircraft blurred/edited or painted over on purpose? And I can't tell its method of lift and drag. Is it the same kind of flight controls as the B-2?

[MediaBlitzDIR]

@JoyFulDoom - Check out the Phantom Ray photo URL in the description and you will see that the edges of the craft are painted differently than the rest of the plane. The paint along the edges has special anti-reflective and radar absorbing qualities.  The flight controls on the B-2 are completely unique to itself alone.

[FelixA9]

@MrDeano324 Phantom Ray (And the NG X-47B) have both been around longer than Taranis. If anything, Taranis is a rip off of those two.

[MediaBlitzDIR]

@sasapienza: Phantom Ray uses a conventional turbofan engine – there's no Tesla Drive, no Warp Core, no Dlithium crystals on this aircraft.

[pookatim]

The problem is that aircraft technology has far outstripped the limits of human endurance. The future is going to be unmanned systems. They are not limited by the "G-forces" as human pilots would be. Most likely, there will be a pilot in a "virtual" cockpit that mimics what the actual aircraft is experiencing in real time. The ultimate video game.

[TheSaltysack]

y do they show us this garbage sow the real black projects

[Quaaludedude714]

Cool it puts no lives at risk & kicks Ass :) QC

[CurtisSalopek]

Old technology.

[thesnazzydazzyshow]

Snazzy

[ChezKiva]

This is the first to copy the giant Black Triangle-UFO's. (I'm surprised they haven't included anti-gravity technology!)

[doceigen]

@MediaBlitzDIR Yup, that's why I used the euphemism, "SO MUCH NICER", rather than arguing for it.