ESTOL positioning system certified after X-31A resumes Pax River flights

After a grounding earlier this summer, the X-31A thrust-vectoring aircraft program has resumed test flights at Patuxent River, Md., and now has certified the highly precise positioning system that eventually will allow the X-31A to perform extremely short takeoff and landing (ESTOL) maneuvers. The X...

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