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Two of the three Lockheed Martin RQ-3A DarkStar unmanned aerial vehicles built are shown packed in a C-5B Galaxy on their final flight from Palmdale, California, to the US Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, in December 1999. DarkStar first flew on 29 March 1996, but it crashed during its second flight a month later. The second DarkStar (shown at left) was modified to increase its stability and first flew on 29 June 1998. It is now on display at the museum at Wright-Patterson. Two additional DarkStar vehicles (including the one on the right) were completed, but they never flew. One of those aircraft is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, and the other is on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington. In January 1999, the Department of Defense terminated the DarkStar UAV program because of budget cuts. The C-5 that carried the DarkStars was based at Travis AFB, California.
Photo Posted: 9 September 2010
http://www.codeonemagazine.com/gallery_slideshow.html?item_id=822