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For first flight this morning we took off around 8 o'clock,

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we intended to fly four hours

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which is exactly what we did.

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We, we had 10 pages of data points we wanted to take

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and every one of those was accomplished successfully.

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We had a chase aircraft watching everything

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that was going on.

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We were able to fly as high as 61,400 feet

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and at the end of the four hours,

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the aircraft executed a perfect landing.

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This flight today, was a culmination of

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developing a brand new ground station,

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preparing the aircraft for flight

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and now that we've accomplished this successful flight,

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now our attention turns to preparing this aircraft

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to fly science missions in a few months.

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The Global Hawk aircraft has a combination of

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endurance, range and altitude that

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separate it from any other aircraft

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that's currently flying.