Northrop Tests Tailsitter VTOL For Darpa’s Tern UAV

Credit: U.S. Navy National Museum for Aviation, via Wikipedia
Northrop Grumman will begin wind-tunnel tests in January of the tail-sitting vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) concept that is the finalist in Darpa’s Tern program to demonstrate a Predator-class unmanned aircraft able to operate from smaller U.S. Navy warships. Revealing details of the...
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