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"Le Bourget" (16): VSR700 demonstrator performs first autonomous flights

Paris, France - Validating technologies on an Optionally Piloted Vehicle (OPV) demonstrator

Airbus Helicopters recently started autonomous flight trials of a VSR700 Optionally Piloted Vehicle (OPV) demonstrator, paving the way for a first flight of the actual VSR700 prototype in 2018. A light military rotary-wing tactical unmanned aerial vehicle, the VSR700 is being developed jointly by Airbus Helicopters and Helicopteres Guimbal, the original manufacturer of the civil-certified Cabri G2...

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Rome, Italy, 06/19/2017 19:12
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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