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Article: Air Force Reviewing Global Hawk Flight Safety Procedures At Beale.
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- Helicopter News
- Article date:
- January 9, 2007
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By Michael Sirak and Ann Roosevelt
The Air Force is reviewing the safety procedures that it instituted for the training flights of the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft out of Beale AFB, Calif., to allay Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) concerns over the use of the platform in airspace shared with civil aircraft, according to service and industry officials.
During the first routine training mission of the Northrop Grumman [NOC]- built Global Hawk on Nov. 21 from the base, the aircraft experienced several short interruptions in the communications links between it and its ground station, raising some concerns in the ...