Cleared for landing ‘One Boeing’ teamwork paved the way for Phantom Eye to resume test flights By Eric Carlson and photos by Bob Ferguson When structural analysis engineer Ed Nowakowski and design engineer Mike Knoble, both on the F/A-18 landing gear team, heard about a landing gear issue on what had otherwise been a successful first flight of Boeing’s unmanned, liquid hydrogen– powered Phantom Eye, they immediately wondered how they might be of help. It didn’t take long for the “One Boeing” call for assistance to go out. “The day we found out they wanted us to help, our team was in the lab that afternoon looking at parts and starting the investigation to determine what really happened,” Nowakowski said. Some nine months later, in late February, Phantom Eye flew again—and this time made a picture-perfect landing on the high desert of Edwards Air Force Base in California. The flight was a 16 BOEING FRONTIERS / APRIL 2013
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