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Boeing Directed Energy Systems and wholly owned Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab announce that they
have developed a new compact, energy-efficient camera that provides three-dimensional images and is
one-third the size and uses 1/10th the power of most comparable 3D imaging cameras.
Boeing announces that after five years of technology development, it has begun building Phantom
Eye — its first unmanned liquid-hydrogen-powered high-altitude long-endurance demonstrator aircraft.
The 747-8 Freighter completes initial airworthiness testing.
Following news reports indicating that the United States has prevailed on all of the major issues in the
World Trade Organization’s final decision in the U.S. case against European subsidies to Airbus, Boeing
issues a statement saying, “This is … good news for aerospace workers across America who for
decades have had to compete against a heavily subsidized Airbus.”
To celebrate Earth Day, The “Green Hornet,” an unmodified, Boeing-built F/A-18F Super Hornet, takes
off from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., powered by a sustainable biofuel blend of 50 percent
camelina — a hardy U.S.-grown plant that can thrive even in difficult soil — and 50 percent JP-5
aviation fuel.
The Boeing-built Orbital Test Vehicle, also known as the X-37B, is launched on an Atlas V rocket into a
low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral.
Boeing begins assembly of the first 747-8 Intercontinental at the factory in Everett, Wash.
Boeing announces an environmental cleanup and habitat restoration project that will create nearly five
acres of intertidal wetlands, restore more than half a mile of waterway and establish a resting area for
migratory fish along the lower Duwamish Waterway in Seattle.
A fully restored 1928 vintage Boeing Model 40, Boeing’s first production commercial airplane, flies in
formation with the newest Boeing airplane, the 787 Dreamliner, at 12,000 feet (3657 meters) in the skies
over Mount Rainier south of Seattle. A photo is taken from a third airplane.
Boeing unveils the fighter-sized Phantom Ray unmanned airborne system, a test bed for
advanced technologies.
Boeing successfully flies its ScanEagle Compressed Carriage unmanned airborne system at a testing facility
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