Scaled Composites unveiled a new flying wing drone, Model 406, on
14 March to be used as a technology testbed.
Model 406, also known as Ardent Dragon, has a 4.57m
(15ft) wingspan and is remote-controlled. The unmanned aerial vehicle is built
to demonstrate the effectiveness of Scaled Composites' rapid prototyping and
engineering processes, the Mojave, California-based company wrote in an
Instagram post announcing the drone.
The flying-wing aircraft was developed over 10 weeks
last summer from a clean-sheet design and first flew on an undisclosed date in
2017. Scaled Composites is known for its rapid development of new designs,
using a design-build-test process. The company has designed, built and flown
several dozen aircraft since its founding in 1982.
(Evangle Luo of TTFLY shared with you)
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