Milestone Adds Momentum To Team's Plans To Begin Flight Testing
By Year's End
Northrop Grumman Corporation and Bell Helicopter, have moved a
significant step closer to being able to offer military users a
vertical unmanned system that can ferry cargo - either internally
or externally - over extended distances. On September 17, the team
applied external power for the first time to the main computers and
associated subsystems for its new Fire-X medium-range vertical
unmanned aerial system (VUAS), currently in final integration and
test at Bell Helicopter's Xworx rapid prototyping facility in Fort
Worth, Texas.
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