NCKU Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Successfully Completed Its Maiden Voyage

The Remotely Piloted Vehicle & Micro Satellite Research Laboratory (RMRL) led by Prof. Fei-Bin Hsiao from Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, built the Surveillance, Watch, Autonomous and Navigation Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Swan UAV) that successfully completed its first test-flight circling Dunggang Township and Liuchiu Island of Pingtung County, a 16-km flight range, in 2005. After that, the Spoonbill Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Spoonbill UAV) built in this April successfully finished its maiden voyage to fly across Taiwan Straight to Penghu with a flight range of 92 km in the morning of October 20th, 2009. Spoonbill UAV took off at 9:25 am from salt field at Cigu Township of Tainan County, over Taiwan Strait straight to Dongji Island of Penghu County, and landed back at... [read full story]                    

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