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  Boeing Bird of Prey
Boeing chose the St. Louis Phantom Works plant as its venue to announce the unveiling of "Bird of Prey," an experimental aircraft tested between 1992 and 1999.
Designing Bird of Prey was irrelevant to the company's A/F-X efforts (cancelled in 1994) and wasn't enough to win a spot for McDonnell Douglas when the JSF competition was narrowed to Lockheed and Boeing in 1996.
The "Bird of Prey" name was suggested as a classified aircraft in November of 2000 by Steve Douglas, a writer for "Popular Science." Based on a mysterious "Bird of Prey" patch, Douglas concluded that "Bird of Prey" was a variable-geometry aircraft with forward-sweeping wings.
www.geocities.com /xplanes2000/birdofprey.html   (354 words)

  
 Boeing: Boeing Unveils Bird of Prey Stealth Technology Demonstrator
Developed by the Boeing Phantom Works advanced research-and-development organization, the Bird of Prey was among the first to initiate the use of large, single-piece composite structures; low-cost, disposable tooling; and 3-D virtual reality design and assembly processes to ensure the aircraft was affordable to build as well as high-performing.
Bird of Prey has a wingspan of approximately 23 feet and a length of 47 feet, and weighs nearly 7,400 pounds.
Boeing's current development of the X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle, or UCAV, technology demonstrator draws directly on its Bird of Prey experience.
www.boeing.com /news/releases/2002/q4/nr_021018m.html   (649 words)

  
 Boeing Bird of Prey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bird of Prey was a fl project aircraft, intended to demonstrate stealth technology, developed by what is now a part of Boeing.
The Bird of Prey is rumored to have been used to test active camouflage, which would involve coatings or panels capable of changing color or luminosity.
While these are unconfirmable press rumors, the Bird of Prey was otherwise key in the development of a new kind of low-visibility camouflage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boeing_Bird_of_Prey   (641 words)

  
 Bird of prey (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bird of prey, several species of large carnivorous birds
Bird of Prey, a song by Jim Morrison which appeared on the 1995 remastered edition of An American Prayer.
Bird of Prey, the alternate title to Sunset, a song by Fatboy Slim, which is a remix of the song by Jim Morrison
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bird_of_prey_(disambiguation)   (226 words)

  
 Air-Attack.com - Bird Of Prey
The Bird of Prey has made 38 flights since being secretly launched in 1996.
Boeing pilot Joe Felock made it clear that the Bird of Prey named after a Klingon spacecraft from Star Trek was a low-performance demonstrator, designed to put a representative shape into the air with minimum time and expense.
It has not been confirmed whether the Bird of Prey was ultimately intended to be manned or unmanned.
www.air-attack.com /page.php?pid=1   (543 words)

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