Dufour Aerospace’s First Flight in Sweden – Uplaza

This week, Dufour Aerospace carried out a collection of buyer demonstrations and checks in Sweden. The flights happened on the Västervik airfield in Sweden, supported by the Västervik Drone Science Park and Savback Helicopters, one in all our strategic companions. It was the primary deployment of Dufour’s newly created Operations Group. The AeroMini10, Dufour’s small-sized check and validation platform, proved its value in real-world flying.

In a complete of 12 autonomous flights, Dufour’s staff demonstrated the capabilities of unmanned tilt-wing plane usually and the in-house flight management system specifically. The checks went as deliberate, and so the staff was in a position to accumulate a variety of worthwhile operational expertise – outdoors the consolation zone of our residence base in Switzerland.

The AeroMini10 used on this marketing campaign is the smallest member of the Dufour Aerospace tilt-wing household. It’s a scaled-down model of the 6-metre-wingspan Aero2. From a techniques perspective, it’s absolutely similar to Dufour’s flagship product, the Aero2. The AeroMini10 permits for finishing up very significant flight operations with comparatively little effort. That is useful for proof-of-concept operations or to familiarize potential operators with the system. The platform additionally has nice worth for pilot and operator coaching functions.

Whereas the system is able to BVLOS (Past Visible Line of Sight), the flights of this marketing campaign had been carried out throughout the drone pilots’ visible vary. All in all, it was a profitable first flight within the yard of our neighbours to the north.