Boeing Rapid-Prototypes Its Phantom Ray Spy Plane Into Flight

Boeing's newest research aircraft got a public unveiling yesterday, which is interesting for such a future-facing aircraft that's surely destined for a ton of cloak-and-dagger work. It's an unmanned spy plane, and even its looks are creepy.

It's called, fittingly enough, the Phantom Ray--words very suited to its future spying role and its sleek lifting-body shape that is highly reminiscent of those wondrous flat fish. Rolled out yesterday at Boeing's St. Louis plant, it's actually not...