MESA-equipped Wedgetail takes 1st test flight

Project Wedgetail, a program to develop a next-generation airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system using a modified Boeing 737-700, conducted its first flight May 20 from Seattle, Wash. The jet, outfitted with a distinctive "Top Hat" radar antenna on its aft fuselage, took off from Boeing...

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