Nevertheless, the Bird of Prey went on to fly 38 test flights between 1996 and 1999, and the program was successful enough to survive the Boeing acquisition of McDonnell-Douglas in 1998.

Summary and Key Points: The YF-118G Bird of Prey, developed in the 1990s by Boeing Phantom Works at Area 51, was a pioneering testbed for stealth technologies rather than combat aircraft.

In 1992, Boeing's Phantom Works program began development on the Bird of Prey, a project managed by the U.S. Air Force, funded by Boeing, and borrowing the name from the Klingon starship in 1984 ...

What You Need to Know: The Boeing YF-118G, nicknamed the "Bird of Prey," was a stealth technology demonstrator developed by Boeing's Phantom Works in the 1990s. Like a Klingon spacecraft from Star ...

The Bird of Prey project began at the Phantom Works in 1992, and the aircraft made its first flight eight months earlier than the X-36 on September 11, 1996.

When Boeing and the Air Force unveiled the once ultra-secret Bird of Prey prototype aircraft on October 18, they were stingy with information. They informed guests that it had made 38 flights ...

The Bird of Prey plane is 47 feet long with a distinctive 23-foot wing at the rear shaped like a "W." The Boeing project ran from 1992 through 1999.

There is no place where Quiet Bird's spirit lives on more than in Boeing's once top-secret Bird Of Prey technology demonstrator. Unlike Quiet Bird, it did get to fly, albeit in the 1990s.

Boeing’s YF-118G was Amazing . Boeing’s Phantom Works once created a “Bird of Prey.” Sadly, it was not the Klingon spaceship from Star Trek. But it came as close as it could have for the ...

The Bird of Prey was first launched in 1996 at Area 51 and made a total of 38 flights. The YF-118G was designed for lower altitudes, with a maximum operational ceiling of just 20,000 feet.