U.S. Navy flies MQ-4C Triton UAS across the United States

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landing at Pax River

MQ-4C Triton UAS Ends Cross-Country Flight >> Naval Today

Navy’s Triton unmanned aircraft completes first cross-country flight | NAVAIR - U.S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command - Navy and Marine Corps Aviation Research, Development, Acquisition, Test and Evaluation

PMA-262 has scheduled Triton operations to start at Pax River within the next several weeks. The Triton integrated test team will conduct further envelope expansion, sensor, communications and interoperability testing.
These are just a few of the many robust tests we will conduct over the next three years, said Mike McDaniel, lead flight test director. Three Triton test vehicles will fly approximately 2,000 hours before achieving initial operational capability in 2017.

U.S. Navy to fly its MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft Systems across the United States

By Captain Jim Hoke, Triton UAS Program Manager
This week, for the first time, we will fly our unmanned MQ-4C Triton cross-country to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, where the “future of naval aviation begins.” For months, our team, comprised of military, civilian and contractor personnel, has been doing a phenomenal job making sure every detail is in place for this historic day.

Published on Sep 18, 2014

Watch as MQ-4C Triton, the Navy's largest unmanned aircraft, lands at 7:53 a.m. Sept. 18 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. Its debut at Patuxent River marks the transition from initial flight test to testing that will demonstrate the Triton's capability to perform operational missions in the maritime domain. Rear Adm. Mat Winter, who oversees Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons at NAVAIR, and Capt. Jim Hoke, program manager of Triton's Persistent Maritime Unmanned Systems Program Office, provide commentary.

MQ-4C Triton UAS Arrives at NAS Patuxent River, Enters Next Phase of Testing :: Air-Attack.com News 

PALMDALE, Calif. – Sept. 18, 2014 – The first U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has completed a flight from California to Maryland. The UAS flew 11 hours from the Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) facility in Palmdale to Naval Air Station Patuxent River to start its next phase of testing, moving the program closer toward operational assessment. Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor for the Navy's MQ-4C Triton UAS program.

The Navy's New Triton Drone Just Flew Clear Across America 

The Triton set down just before 8 AM yesterday at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland after completing its first cross-country ferry flight. It left from Northrop Grumman's Palmdale facility in California 11 hours prior and traveled some 3,290 nautical miles along the Southern US border, across the Gulf of Mexico, and up the Atlantic seaboard at an altitude of 50,000 feet. This not only kept the UAS out of the way of civilian air traffic, it also gave NG crews the opportunity to shakedown the platform over land, where it could be more easily recovered should something malfunction, as well as break the platform's endurance record.