Boeing’s experimental autonomous aircraft completes its first test flight

Boeing社の子会社Aurora Flight Sciences社の完全自動電気飛行機の最初のフライトテストが行われ、無人での垂直離陸、数秒のHovering(空中停止状態飛行)及び着陸を成し遂げた。と言う記事です。

Aurora Flight Sciences, a subsidiary of aerospace giant Boeing, said Wednesday that it recently conducted the first test flight of its all-electric autonomous passenger air vehicle. The unpiloted vehicle took off vertically, hovered for a few seconds, and then landed at the company’s test site in Manassas, Virginia. Boeing said that future flights will test forward, wing-borne flight, as well as the transition phase between vertical and forward-flight modes.