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Army Testing Shadow TUAS In Move Toward Flying In National Air Space

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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

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The Project Office for Unmanned Aircraft Systems yesterday said it began damage tolerance testing on the RQ-7B Shadow Unmanned Aircraft System Oct. 1 at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. Teaming with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), PM UAS hopes that a successful outcome from seeded fault testing--intentionally introduces problems into the system--will further FAA confidence toward allowing Tactical UAS (TUAS) such as AAI Corp.'s [TXT] Shadow to fly in national airspace. These flight capabilities have been demonstrated and flight…

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