CATBird Takes Final Steps Toward Airborne Avionics Testing
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At 3:30 p.m. CST, the Cooperative Avionics Test Bed – “CATBird” – took off on a two-hour functional check flight, one of its final sorties before aerial F-35 mission systems testing begins. CATBird is a highly modified 737 airliner designed to test, integrate and validate the full F-35 mission systems suite in a dynamic, airborne environment before the system ever flies in an F-35 aircraft.
Source: Lockheed Martin
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