Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"The fee-for-service arrangement provides the academy with a flexible, cost-effective, comprehensive system to train Cadets in the planning and executing UAS missions... The academy will be able to draw upon the considerable assets of this AAI system as they train a core group of future U.S. Air Force leaders."

Source:Stephen Flach, division vice president of AAI's Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems. commenting on the fact that cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy will learn about Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) using AAI's Aerosonde Mark 4.7 system under a fee-for-service contract announced by AAI Wednesday.

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