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Northrop Grumman Formation Flying Global Hawks Close In On Autonomous Aerial Refueling

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

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Northrop Grumman [NOC], the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center said they have successfully completed a series of flights moving DARPA's Autonomous High-Altitude Refueling (AHR) program closer to demonstrating the first autonomous aerial refueling between two unmanned, high-altitude aircraft. The goal of the $33 million DARPA AHR program is to demonstrate autonomous fuel transfer between two Global Hawks, thus enabling flights of up to one-week endurance. The flights, which used two NASA Global Hawk…

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