Puma AE Small Unmanned Aircraft Achieves Continuous Flight for Greater than Nine Hours

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AeroVironment has announced that a up to date outdoor test flight of a solar-powered prototype version of the company’s proven Puma AE small unmanned aircraft system (UAS), operating with the company’s newest long-endurance battery, lasted 9 hours, 11 minutes – significantly longer than the flight endurance of small UAS getting used inside the field today. AeroVironment is operating with Alta Devices, a Sunnyvale, Calif. company that gives flexible, portable power which might be embedded into some other material, within the development of the solar Puma AE. “This is a critical milestone with far-reaching implications for the various ways small UAS... Read More »

Eurofighter Typhoon Marks Decade in RAF Service

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Two of the Royal Air Force’s leading officers have hailed the performance of the Eurofighter Typhoon jet during its first decade of flying and because deliveries were made to the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) in 2003. With the addition of latest technology developments over the past 10 years, the aircraft is now the world’s only truly ‘swing’ role jet, capable of switch from air-to-air to air-to-surface attack capabilities within the same mission. Praise indeed Air Vice-Marshal Edward Stringer, the RAF’s Assistant Chief of Air Staff, praised the performance of ‘Team Typhoon’ and said the aircraft had produced a “level... Read More »