RC Huey or Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System

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Channel: wcolby1 · 2017 · Autos & Vehicles

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A UH-1 Huey equipped with the Office of Naval Research-funded 
Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System (AACUS) sensor suite
conducts integrated flight testing at the Flying Circus Aerodrome
located in Bealeton, Va. The AACUS program is developing an 
innovative capability that when installed in existing rotary-wing 
aircraft enables autonomous flight, obstacle avoidance, approaches, landings and takeoffs to and from unprepared landing sites.

RC Huey or Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System

BEALETON, VA, UNITED STATES
02.15.2017
Video by John Williams 
Office of Naval Research

This work, Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System (AACUS), by John Williams, identified by DVIDS, is free of known copyright restrictions under U.S. copyright law.

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