In Pictures: Top Aerospace & Defense Stories, Jan. 30 2023

January 31, 2023

Pyka Unveils Pelican Cargo Heavy-Payload UAS

Credit: Pyka. U.S. startup Pyka is conducting flight tests of its Pelican Cargo heavy-payload electric uncrewed logistics aircraft in California and planning to perform operational flights in the UK this year with Skyports Drone Services.

USAF Orders More KC-46s As Program Works Cargo, Fuel Issues

Credit: Defense Department. The KC-46’s developmental history is a story of U.S. Air Force work-arounds, in both acquisition and now operations, and that trend is continuing with two new developments in the Pegasus program in recent weeks.

Startup Says Its Personal eVTOL Is The One For Supercar Customers

Credit: Air. If you can afford a supercar, why not buy One, a vehicle that can fly–truly fly? 

Europe’s Fast Rotorcraft Demos In Race To Finish Line

Credit: Clean Sky 2. Two major fast rotorcraft flight demonstrator programs are running against the clock as Europe’s Clean Sky 2 aeronautics research public-private partnership enters its final year of technical activity. 

DARPA Completes Decade-Long HAWC Campaign With Fourth Test

Credit: HAWC. A second successful test of a Lockheed Martin/Aerojet Rocketdyne scramjet-powered cruise missile demonstrator.

The Weekly Debrief: Why A Pair Of Conformal Fuel Tanks Changes The Early Role Of The F-15EX

Credit: U.S. Air Force. The future role of the Boeing F-15EX fleet in the U.S. Air Force inventory depends partly on a pending decision about an optional set of multifunctional fuel tanks. 

Bye Advances eFlyer Trainer Toward Certification

Credit: Bye Aerospace. Bye Aerospace has received FAA approval for the means of compliance for Part 23 certification of its two-seat eFlyer 2 trainer, the first for an all-electric light aircraft.

Perseverance Completes Backup Mars Sample Return Cache

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has completed the caching of 10 samples of rock cores gathered from its Jezero Crater landing site at a location designated Three Forks.

Stratospheric Platforms Working With BT Group On 5G Trials

Credit: Stratospheric Platforms

Airbus, DGA Advance VSR700 Flight Testing

Credit: Thierry Rostang/Airbus Helicopters. Airbus and France’s DGA defense materiel agency have completed a series of overwater flight tests of the VSR700 rotary-wing uncrewed aircraft system.

China Hints At More Y-20 Variants A Decade After First Flight

Credit: People’s Liberation Army. China says it is looking to develop and build more variants of the Xian Y-20 strategic airlifter after the platform celebrated a decade since first flight on Jan. 26, 2013.

Pyka unveils Pelican Cargo heavy-payload UAS and startup says its personal eVTOL is the one for supercar customers. Take a look at these and more in our daily roundup of aerospace & defense news.

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