Airbus Conducts First VSR700 Autonomous Flights

Airbus has completed the first autonomous flights of its VSR700 unmanned maritime helicopter demonstrator. The VSR700 demonstrator—a converted Guimbal Cabri G2 piston-engine light helicopter—took to the air at the Istres test airfield near Marseille on Dec. 20 to carry out a demonstration flight to...

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