Article: Aerospace & Defense News - Defense North America.

Jul 5, 2009

Aurora Flight Sciences

Unmanned air vehicle maker Aurora Flight Sciences has completed a one-year test programme incorporating a series of autonomous take-offs and landings with an "optionally manned" Cessna 337 Skymaster piston twin flying near Aurora's home base in northern Virginia. Although autonomous take-off and landing capabilities exist for other UAVs, Aurora says its experience with the practice to date apply only to its vertical take-off and landing UAVs. "While Aurora has routinely operated vertical take-off and landing unmanned aircraft in a fully autonomous mode, this marks the first time we have performed fully autonomous ...

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