Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Boeing Completes 1st Flight of QF-16 Aerial Target for US Air Force

Boeing Completes 1st Flight of QF-16 Aerial Target for US Air Force: Jacksonville, FL (SPX) May 15, 2012



Boeing and the U.S. Air Force completed the first manned flight of the QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target (FSAT) on May 4 at Cecil Field in Jacksonville. The QF-16 took off at 3:05 p.m. Eastern time and climbed to an altitude of 41,000 feet during its 66-minute flight.

The Air Force awarded a multi-year contract to Boeing in March 2010 that represented Phase I of the initial engineering, manuf

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