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UK: the future of unmanned flight is "small"

Bath, UK - Few centimetres-sized aircraft under development with both institutional and industrial funds

Research for the production of very small aircraft (just few centimetres) go on at Bath University (UK, see for details AVIONEWS). British Ministry of Defence, British Aerospace and QinetiQ ensured their financial support to the effort which schedules the manufacturing of something more than simple remote-controlled aircraft, as they would actually be robots endowed with avionics capable of managing...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 124146
Rome, Italy, 07/20/2005 18:34
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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