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Diamond DA42 Autoland (Video)

By Mary Grady

Diamond Aircraft, as AVweb reported last week, has been working  with the University of Stuttgart to develop an auto-land system for  the DA42, and on Monday, they posted a video of one of the test  landings. The system is highly redundant, and requires no ground  support, the test engineers said. They also added that they plan to  test an automatic takeoff feature later this month. The  DA42 also has been used recently in unmanned flight tests,  conducted by Aurora Life Sciences, in New York. Those flights  were the first to utilize a large-scale fixed-wing aircraft in any of  the FAA’s six designated unmanned aircraft test sites. The video was posted on YouTube on Monday. view on YouTube