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Sikorsky Conducts Autonomous Test Flight Of Black Hawk Under Pilot Supervision

Sikorsky Conducts Autonomous Test Flight Of Black Hawk Under Pilot Supervision
The Sikorsky S-70 Optionally Piloted Vehicle (OPV) Black Hawk was retrofitted with a technology kit to give it full-authority, fly-by-wire flight controls. Recently, this technology was tested in a first-of-its-kind mission, demonstrating the OPV Black Hawk’s complete supervised autonomy capabilities. Photo courtesy of Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company

Sikorsky [LMT] said this week it recently demonstrated an autonomous test flight of a UH-60 Black Hawk with an onboard pilot supervising using co-piloting technology on a tablet.  Igor Cherepinsky, director of Sikorsky Innovations, told Defense Daily the test in late 2020 with the S-70 Optionally Piloted Vehicle (OPV) Black Hawk will be followed by a demonstration on a UH-60M and test to fly Black Hawks in formation using the technology in 2022. “This was the first time the OPV…

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