Aug 17 1974
From The Space Library
The first test flight of an Air Force remotely piloted vehicle was successfully completed, operated from a ground console at Edwards Air Force Base. The RPV-built by Teledyne, Inc., Ryan Aeronautical Div. and incorporating a 25-m wingspan and a single jet engine mounted on an 11-m fuselage-was in the air 1 hr 50 min and reached an altitude of 7770 m. One of two kinds of high-altitude, long-range reconnaissance aircraft produced under the Compass Cope program, the aircraft could carry a 3200-kg payload at a cruising altitude of 20 000 m for 30 hrs. (Miles, LA Times, 22 Aug 74, 31; AP, W Post, 23 Aug 74, 11)
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