Tiny ScanEagle Plane Takes Flight
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Boeing Co. said it completed a successful test flight of a tiny unmanned plane designed to provide cheap military surveillance with no danger to human life.
Launched by a pneumatic catapult, the 4-foot-long ScanEagle flew for 45 minutes Wednesday over a preset course in eastern Oregon that took it as high as 1,500 feet.
The aircraft was built by a Boeing partner, Bingen, Wash.-based Insitu Group.
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