AirMule could be the precursor to flying autonomous cars of the future with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL)

01/05/2016 - 04:08

Tamir Eshel


The ‘AirMule’ Vertical TakeOff and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) successfully completed its first untethered flight at the Megiddo airfield in northern Israel on December 30th, the developer Tactical Robotics Ltd announced. On this first flight the AirMule performed a vertical takeoff and landing, followed by stability checks and forward flights at low speed.

The Airmule and its export variant ‘Cormorant’ are developed by Tactical Robotics, a subsidiary of the ‘Fancraft’ technology pioneer Urban Aeronautics.

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