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Aviation at the leading edge of science

Air Facts

The first free flight was the following month with three ‘test pilots’: a duck, a rooster, and a sheep. One can only speculate that people on the ground were surprised when a huge UFO flew over them piloted by an equally terrified sheep baaing. Pilatre de Roziere should be listed among the test pilot elite.

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Air Taxis, Drone Delivery, and the Future of Aviation

Learn to Fly

Many of them are fully automated with no pilot on board. Some of these do have a pilot on board. of this ConOps, which continues to focus on UTM operations below 400 feet above ground level (AGL). Most are small uncrewed aircraft they call drones; others are larger, about the size of a car. You prefer to call them flying robots.

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