Boeing Phantom Works
| Boeing Phantom Works | |
|---|---|
| legal form | subsidiary |
| Seat | St. Louis , Missouri , United States |
| management | Darryl Davis ( President ) |
| Number of employees | 2600 |
| Branch | Aviation and aerospace industry and advanced research and development |
| Website | www.boeing.com |
Boeing Phantom Works is a research and development department of the aircraft manufacturer Boeing . Her focus is on the development of advanced military products and technologies, which are usually kept under strict secrecy and can be found in the arms industry , space travel and security .
history
Phantom Works was founded by McDonnell Douglas in the 1990s .
Locations
Its headquarters are in St. Louis , Missouri . However, Phantom Works has projects in most of the Boeing Group's locations in the United States. In addition, an internationally oriented group works for governments in the United States, Great Britain, Australia and India.
Well-known projects
- McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II : Advanced Navy Stealth Fighter Experimental Concept
- Boeing A160 Hummingbird UAV helicopter
- Boeing Bird of Prey : Stealth UAV Demonstrator
- Boeing Condor : Soaring drone with a long range
- F / A-XX : 6th generation fighter
- Pelican ULTRA
- Boeing Phantom Eye : Soaring reconnaissance drone
- Boeing Phantom Ray : unmanned test vehicle for advanced aerospace engineering
- Quad TiltRotor (with Bell Helicopter )
- X-32 Joint Strike Fighter
- X-37 Advanced Technology Demonstrator
- X-45 UCAV
- X-48 Blended Wing Body Demonstrator
- Boeing X-51 Waverider: supersonic test object
- X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing
- McDonnell Douglas YF-23 : Black Widow
See also
- Skunk Works , a similar division of Lockheed Martin
Web links
- Phantom Works Overview
- Inside the Phantom Works ( Memento from June 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Executive Biographies . Boeing. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2006/august/ts_sf05.pdf