Global Hawk - Global Hawk

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.—Global Hawk air vehicle number one, a high-altitude, long endurance unmanned air vehicle, took off from the main runway for its first airworthiness evaluation and payload demonstration flight. Global Hawk’s mission is to provide military field commanders with a high-altitude, long- endurance system that can obtain high resolution, near- real-time imagery of large geographic areas. (U.S. Air Force Photo)