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On a Smaller Scale: NASA’s Flight Research UAVs

Dec 8, 2014

Graham Warwick | Aviation Week & Space Technology

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  NASA Langley Research Center’s GL-10 Greased Lightning is a subscale model of a hybrid-electric distributed-propulsion unmanned aircraft with tilting wing and tail that would be able to take off and land vertically and fly for up to 24 hr. Seen here being tether-tested before free-flight tests, the 10-ft.-span GL-10 weighs 55 lb. and is battery powered. Credit: NASA

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NASA is making increasing use of small unmanned aircraft for flight research to reduce costs and risks. Here are some recent examples of new technologies being tested in small packages.