(Luft) Boeing YAL-1A Airborne Laser

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Airborne Laser Conducts Extended Flight Test


(Source: US Air Force; issued Dec. 13, 2004)


EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. --- YAL-1A, the Airborne Laser aircraft, flew for 2 hours and 31 minutes here Dec. 9. The flight was part of a continuing series to re-establish airworthiness, a requirement since the aircraft has been out of service for almost two years for modifications and installation of the laser’s complex beam control system.

While the aircraft was flying, engineers in the system integration lab here were preparing for the second lasing test of the megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser.