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Tuesday, December 14, 2010





Takeoff Boeing
ST. LOUIS — Boeing's newest spy drone, the Phantom Ray, got its first taste of the air Monday while hitching a ride on a 747 designed to ferry the space shuttle. PopSci braved the freezing cold to bring you exclusive coverage.

Phantom Ray Hitches a Ride: A NASA shuttle carrier toting a new spy drone takes off Monday afternoon from Lambert International Airport in St. Louis.  Rebecca Boyle
The drone will be delivered to Edwards Air Force Base sometime this week, but Boeing and NASA had to take a test flight first to make sure everything worked properly and the tiny plane survived the trip.
"It stayed on," joked Craig Brown, Phantom Ray's program manager.
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