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US Air Force tests Anduril’s semiautonomous YFQ-44A combat drone

A small team of U.S. Air Force operators recently flew a full-scale combat drone built by Anduril Industries, controlling the ...
QNS

Flying back in time to explore Glendale’s link to aviation history: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was

Previously located off the intersection of Cooper Avenue and 79th Place in Glendale, the Brunner Winkle Aircraft Corporation ...
National Security Journal on MSN

620 ‘flying Dorito’ mini stealth bombers flying for aircraft carriers: The A-12 Avenger II could have transformed the US Navy

The Pentagon spent $5 billion developing a carrier-based stealth bomber shaped like a triangle — nicknamed ‘The Flying Dorito ...
Hackaday

Electric Wind-Up Plane Uses Supercapacitors For Free Flight Fun

There’s something to be said for a simple wind-up, free flight model airplane. With no controls, it must be built very well ...
Interesting Engineering

US Air Force tests Anduril semiautonomous combat jet drone without direct pilot control

The U.S. Air Force tested a jet-powered YFQ-44A drone that can fly missions on its own, without a pilot controlling it in ...
IEEE

Disturbance-Learning-Based Robust Model Predictive Control for Attitude Tracking of Small Aircraft

Abstract: Attitude control of small aircraft under unknown disturbances poses a tricky task. This article proposes a model predictive controller (MPC) for small aircraft based on online disturbance ...
IEEE

An Aircraft Fuel Flow Model of Cruise Phase Based on LSTM and QAR Data

Abstract: The Quick Access Recorder (QAR) is an airborne data recording device used to collect and record a large amount of operational data generated by various systems in the aircraft. Aircraft ...