P-8A Poseidon tests mission system in flight

摘要

The second Boeing P-8A Poseidon test aircraft, T2, successfully completed the program's first mission systems test flight in June. T2 will be used to verify integrat-ed mission systems performance during flights in Seattle and at Naval Air Station Patuxent River.During the three-hour flight, the joint Boeing and US Navy test team exercised mission computing on all five operator workstations and successfully demon-strated key systems - including acoustics, mission planning, tactical data-link, com-munications, electronic support measures and flight test instrumentation - for the first time.