A few months later, Hall was back on the team for another Global Hawk first: its maiden hurricane ... The pilots have no view out the aircraft’s window. For the scientists, shifts can be long.

The RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system with an integrated sensor suite that provides intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or ISR, capability ...

With $10 billion in development costs, the Global Hawk UAV has been an expensive proposition for the US Air Force over the course of its 15-year life. The huge UAV – its wingspan is nearly 30 ...

The Collier Trophy for the year 2000 has been bestowed on Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), one of a new class of aircraft designed to carry out military missions ...

Hawk suffered a broken rib, lost teeth, back injuries and several concussions during the 10 years he attempted the trick Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE.