Boeing proposing autonomous aerial refueling program with DARPA

Building on its work in autonomous formation flight (AFF), the Boeing Co. has proposed collaborating with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and NASA on a project to demonstrate autonomous aerial refueling (AAR) in 2004. This technique, in which an unmanned vehicle rendezvous and...

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