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With the completion of its 100th flight last month, the nEUROn Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle technology demonstrator has completed its test campaign in France. Throughout this entire campaign, the nEUROn and associated equipment demonstrated exemplary availability and reliability. Harrison Ford's accident last week in which his Ryan PT-22 experienced engine trouble and went down on a golf course near Santa Monica, California may cause insurance companies to take
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“This agreement underlines the spirit and determination of both our organizations to deliver a modernized ATM system in Europe.” Source: Florian Guillermet, Executive Director of the SESAR Joint Undertaking.
Those failure conditions unlikely to occur in each airplane during its total life, but that may occur several times when considering the total operational life of a number of airplanes of this type.
Ya gotta hand it to YouTube... along with a lot of nonsense, there is some amazing footage... in this case, a copy of the NASA flutter testing of a Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche.
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