
Drone launched from aircraft carrier —
An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator leaves the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on Tuesday, May 14. The drone, propelled by a catapult, was the first to be launched from an aircraft carrier.

Drone launched from aircraft carrier —
The drone demonstrator is loaded onto an aircraft elevator in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia.

Drone launched from aircraft carrier —
The drone taxis on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier.

Drone launched from aircraft carrier —
The X-47B drone sits ready to launch from the deck of the aircraft carrier.

Drone launched from aircraft carrier —
Dave Lorenz, a deck operator for Northrop Grumman, has control of the drone as he moves it via an arm-mounted controller.

Drone is launched from aircraft carrier —
The drone launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier.

Drone launched from aircraft carrier —
The drone flies over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush.


