Global Hawk crashes during flight test at China Lake

The U.S. Air Force's Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle program suffered a setback Monday when one of the UAVs crashed during a test flight at the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station's South Range. Air Vehicle No. 1 was flying at 145 knots and 41,000 feet over the range on an avionics...

Subscription Required

 

This content requires a subscription to one of the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) bundles.

Schedule a demo today to find out how you can access this content and similar content related to your area of the global aviation industry.

Already an AWIN subscriber? Login

 

Did you know?  Aviation Week has won top honors multiple times in the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, the business-to-business media equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes.