Boeing Phantom Works
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Works
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| Type | Operating Division |
|---|---|
| Industry | Aerospace and Advanced Research and Development |
| Founded | by McDonnell Douglas |
| Headquarters | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Key people | Darryl Davis (President)[1] |
| Employees | 2,600 |
| Parent | The Boeing Company |
| Website | www.boeing.com |
The Phantom Works division is the advanced prototyping arm of the Defense and Security side of The Boeing Company. Its primary focus is developing advanced military products and technologies, many of them highly classified, and has produced breakthroughs in defense, space and security.
Founded by McDonnell Douglas, the research and development group continued after Boeing acquired the company. Its logo was derived from the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom combat jet.
Phantom Works' organization mirrors that of Boeing's Defense business units, developing new products for their "sister" units. Their ideas are further developed by the Boeing research and technology organization, which adds engineering and manufacturing technologies for use by Boeing's Commercial and Defense units.
An international group does modelling and simulation work for various governments.
Boeing operates secretive facilities in the United States,[2], Britain,[3] Australia,[4] and India.[5]
Known projects
Phantom Ray Advanced Unmanned Air System
X-51 Waverider advanced hypersonic vehicle
- Boeing Phantom Eye: High Altitude Long Endurance, reconnaissance drone
- Boeing Phantom Ray: Unmanned flying test bed for advanced air system technologies
- Boeing X-51 Wave-rider: Hypersonic vehicle
- Boeing Condor: High Altitude Long Endurance concept drone
- McDonnell Douglas YF-23: Black Widow Advanced Fighter concept
- McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II: Advanced Navy Stealth Fighter concept
- X-32 Joint Strike Fighter
- Bird of Prey: stealth fighter UAV demonstrator
- A160 Hummingbird UAV helicopter
- X-45 UCAV
- X-37 Advanced Technology Demonstrator
- Pelican ULTRA
- X-48 Blended Wing Body demonstrator
- X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing
- Quad TiltRotor (with Bell Helicopter)
- F/A-XX: sixth generation fighter concept
See also
- Inside the Phantom Works - DEW Line article[6]
- Skunk Works, a similar division of Lockheed Martin
References
- ^ Executive Biographies. Boeing. Retrieved on June 29, 2009.
- ^ http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2005/q2/nr_050509t.html
- ^ http://www.boeing.co.uk/ViewContent.do?id=26122&aContent=A%20Portal%20into%20the%20future
- ^ http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2005/q2/nr_050425s.html
- ^ http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/research-development/12246876-1.html
- ^ http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2010/06/inside-phantom-works.html
External links
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