by admin | Jul 21, 2013 | Books by Ron McManus, Drone, Navy, The Drone Enigma, X-47B
On July 10, 2013, after two earlier successful trapped landings on the USS George HW Bush (CVN-77), the Navy’s X-47B “Salty Dog 502” drone self-aborted on a third attempt and flew to an airfield on Wallops Island on the Virginia Eastern Shore. The...
by admin | Jul 13, 2013 | Books by Ron McManus, Drone, Drones, Navy, The Drone Enigma, USS George HW Bush, X-47B
Remember the date, Wednesday, July 10, 2013. It’s the day that the US Navy’s drone, the X-47B dubbed “Salty Dog 502,” made an arrested or trapped landing on an aircraft carrier, the USS George HW Bush (CVN-77). In trapped landings, the drone,...