NASA Remotely Piloted Aircraft Demonstrates Flight Safety Experiment
NASA’s Dryden Remotely Operated Integrated Drone (DROID), a small, remotely piloted research aircraft with a 10‑foot wingspan, makes a hard climbing right turn to avoid a steep rocky slope near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Thursday, May 31, 2012. The flight tests demonstrated that a remotely piloted aircraft, equipped with a smartphone running collision-avoidance software connected to the aircraft’s autopilot, could automatically avoid terrain below.
- Date
- 2012-05-31
- Photographer / author
- TOM TSCHIDA
- Collection
- AFRC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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