
Platform Aerospace, a small Maryland company that lists itself as a service-disabled veteran-owned business founded in 1993, finished an eight day-long flight of the company's Vanilla Unmanned aircraft at Edwards AFB, Calif., on Oct. 2, the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) said. "The official flight time was 8 days, 50 minutes, and 47 seconds, and covered 12,200 miles in continuous flight, breaking the world record for unrefueled, internal combustion endurance of an unmanned aircraft," per AFMC. Air Force Lt.…