SPY PLANE MODEL ON DISPLAY GLOBAL HAWK HONORED AT USAF MUSEUM IN OHIO.Byline: Daily News Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. Corporation's Global Hawk robot spy plane was honored Aug. 8 with the dedication of a full-scale model at the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Montgomery County. As of the 2005 census estimate, the population of Dayton was 158,873. . ``It's very fitting that the first full-scale model of the RQ-4A Global Hawk reside in the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 8,023 acres (3,247 hectares), W Ohio, NE of Dayton; est. 1917. One of the largest airport installations in the world, it is the air force's main research and development base, and the headquarters of the ,'' said Carl O. Johnson, Northrop Grumman vice president and Global Hawk program manager, during the dedication ceremony. ``Not only is this facility the world's largest military aviation museum, but the base is home to the Air Force's Aeronautical aer·o·nau·tic also aer·o·nau·ti·cal adj. Of or relating to aeronautics. aer  o·nau Systems Center, our partner in developing Global Hawk.'' Global Hawk planes were sent into combat in Afghanistan and Iraq even though they were still undergoing tests at Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. . The first production plane was rolled out recently in Palmdale. Since the first flight in 1998, Global Hawks have logged more than 3,000 flight hours, more than half of them during operational missions. Controlled by computers, Global Hawk flies (Zool.) a voracious fly of the family See also: Hawk at altitudes up to 65,000 feet - nearly twice that of an airliner - for more than 35 hours at a time, with a range of more than 15,000 miles. Its radar, cameras and infrared sensors show detailed images of targets on the ground, even in bad conditions like Iraqi dust storms, officials say. It can cover an area the size of Illinois in 24 hours. The Navy is buying two Global Hawks for demonstrations of its ability to keep watch over oceans. |
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