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Air Force Awards First Airworthiness Approval for Human Flight in Electric Aircraft Program
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, May 6 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news:
The U.S. Air Force has awarded the first airworthiness approval for a manned electric aircraft to BETA Technologies, a partner in the AFWERX Agility Prime program. This enables BETA to begin flying its ALIA aircraft in the Agility Prime program. The airworthiness award from the Air Force is the latest milestone in BETA's test program after recently entering its next phase of flight testing.
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Air Force Life Cycle Management Center: Skyborg Autonomy Core System Has Successful First Flight
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, May 6 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news:
The Skyborg leadership team conducted a two-hours and ten minute flight test April 29 of the Skyborg autonomy core system (ACS) aboard a Kratos UTAP-22 tactical unmanned vehicle at Tyndall AFB, Florida.
Termed Milestone 1 of the Autonomous Attritable Aircraft Experimentation (AAAx) campaign, the ACS performed a series of foundational behaviors necessary to characterize safe system op
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