RQ-3 Dark Star UAVThe RQ 3 DarkStar was designed as a "high altitude endurance UAV", and incorporated stealth technology to make it difficult to detect. The DarkStar was fully autonomous: it could take off, fly to its target, operate its sensors, transmit information, return and land without human intervention. Human operators, however, could change the DarkStar's flight plan and sensor orientation through radio or satellite relay. The RQ 3 carried either an optical

Previously the DC-7 designation had applied to a commercial development of the C74 Globemaster I that PanAm had ordered

Lockheed Model 8 Sirius model airplane

the first use of titanium for the hull

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Messerschmitt Me-262 airplane model

the last new Goose was built

The Navy's order totaled 2

were flown at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

the larger one for use in the tropics

later named Spirit

The Governments C-12 aircraft fleet is similar to the Beech Super King Air 200 1900C which is operated extensively around the world by many private and commercial users

By upgrading to four Merlins