MAGIC, Aurora and Boeing/NRL patents drop from the paper trail in 2014
Follow-up briefing: Aurora’s remote-operation work for the US military from about 2010; MAGIC and several Boeing and NRL patents then become hard to find in open documents in 2014. Redacted Blue Devil letters are shown with matching date cut-offs.
Nic Moneypenny’s 18 September 2026 letters plate shows redacted Blue Devil correspondence and asks why MAGIC and related remote-takeover patents thin out of the public record in 2014. Aurora’s earlier work on remote operation of aircraft is treated as background, not as a fitted system on 9M-MRO. The claim is about the documentary record going quiet, not a reconstructed flight-control path.
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MAGIC
Medium Altitude Global ISR and Communications
Boeing US7142971B2 — uninterruptible automatic control
Remote engagement · disconnected onboard controls
Cubic US6641087B1 — anti-hijack remote pilot
Commercial retrofit · satellite relay · cockpit exclusion
Blue Devil, MAGIC, Orion, BIG SAFARI — 2014 window
Briefing collages, 18 September 2026