Aircraft
ScanEagle Compressed Carriage UAS Achieves First Flight
Boeing successfully flew its ScanEagle Compressed Carriage

Boeing successfully flew its ScanEagle Compressed Carriage (SECC) unmanned airborne system (UAS) at a test facility in eastern Oregon on May 12, the company announced this week. The 75-minute flight evaluated the unmanned aircraft’s flight characteristics in a simulated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) mission.

Powered by a six-horsepower engine, the SECC was launched from a ground vehicle, flew an autonomous flight plan at various altitudes and provided streaming video from its electro-optical/infrared sensor package to a ground station.