Vanilla Aircraft UAS Flies More Than Five Days

Credit: Vanilla Aircraft
Weighing just 475 lb. when it took off, Vanilla Aircraft’s VA001 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) landed back at NASA Wallops Flight Facility on the Virginia coast on Oct. 23 after staying aloft for 121.4 hr. The aircraft was launched from the Virginia Space UAS runway at Wallops on Oct. 18 on a...

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