Piasecki Completes First Test Flights of ARES-DV VTOL Aircraft
- Danielle McLean
- Sep 27, 2024
- 1 min read
Piasecki Aircraft Corporation successfully completed the first flights of its Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System Demonstration Vehicle (ARES-DV) at the West Helipad in Essington, Pennsylvania. The tilt-duct VTOL aircraft conducted two tethered flights: one without a payload and another carrying the US Army’s Mobile Multiple Mission Module.
“ARES creates a new baseline for VTOL technology applied to heavy-payload, time-critical logistics crucial for dispersed operations,” said Barth Shenk, Program Manager at the Air Force Research Laboratory.
John Piasecki, CEO of Piasecki Aircraft, noted, “Successful flight demonstration of the ARES proof of concept demonstrator significantly reduces risk and accelerates the development timeline for a family of operational tilt-duct configurations for multi-mission VTOL UAS and high-speed VTOL applications.”
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