Posted: November 29, 2017 4:59 PM
Marine Corps to Test Silent Arrow Autonomous Cargo Aircraft
LOS ANGELES — Yates Electrospace Corp. (YEC) has announced that the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL) has selected the company’s Silent Arrow product line of autonomous cargo aircraft for a 12-month flight test program.
Under the contract, YEC engineers and test pilots will build and test fly a fleet of 10 aircraft from 500- to 1,000-pound gross weights to expand the flight envelope and demonstrate unique performance criteria set forth by MCWL, including:
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