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With gear down and spoilers partially deployed, Northrop Grumman’s X-47B slows toward one of three target speeds below 200 kt during its 29-min. first flight from Edwards AFB, Calif., on Feb. 4. Hailed as the start of a new era for Naval Aviation, the first flight of the unmanned combat air system...
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