The Lockheed U-2 was designed to keep tabs on the Soviet Union over half a century ago. The RQ-4 Global Hawk drone was designed to replace this 50s antique. But how strange you are, fate! The U-2′s replacing its successor.
An unmanned Global Hawk recon drone will join a team of aircraft – all equipped with advanced weather instrumentation – to observe the 2010 storm season closer than ever before.
In mid-June, a single-turbine helicopter took off from a test field in Mesa, Arizona, avoided obstacles in-flight, scoped out a landing site and landed safely. It’s like the kind of flight choppers have made tens of thousands of times before.
