"Strong winds don't provide the best environment for stable flight, but these students were well prepared for the challenge. They learned the principles of what makes aircraft fly – lift, weight, thrust and drag – and put that knowledge to work."
Source: Rudy Loera, coordinator of the aircraft design program and integration manager for Northrop Grumman's X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System program, discussing the finer points of remotely controlled aircraft designed by high school seniors that took to the air for the first time in the culmination of a mentoring program sponsored by Northrop Grumman Corporation. The flight demonstrations, conducted during the last week of May, served as the "final exam" of a four-month curriculum i