GCAP Flying Testbed Achieves Modification Milestone

GCAP Boeing 757 testbed
Credit: Dave Turnbull/Qinetiq
LONDON—UK aerospace engineering company 2Excel has begun flight tests of its heavily modified Boeing 757 flying testbed, which will be used to trial technologies that could equip the fighter that emerges from the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP). In the first phase of a series of planned...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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