Damage-tolerant Flight Controls Demonstrated

By Graham Warwick

Rockwell Collins has demonstrated its damage-tolerant flight controls can increase the safety of an in-production unmanned aircraft, with a series of flights on the U.S. Army’s AAI RQ-7 Shadow tactical UAV.

The damage-tolerance software was loaded onto the Shadow’s Rockwell Collins-supplied Athena flight-control computer and several flights were conducted to ...

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