Vertical-Takeoff-And-Landing Excalibur (Photo from Aviation Week)From Defense News:
Small UAV Firm Devises Unconventional Aircraft.
Aurora Flight Sciences is small compared with most other UAV makers, and part of the reason has to do with timing, Chief Executive John Langford said.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, "the people who had UAVs out there that could be grabbed and sent into theater have done very, very well. That's driven a lot of the growth" in the UAV market, he said. "Aurora did not have a product ready to go on 9/11, and we definitely missed that."
But, he added, "It's a long game … and I think you've got to be careful not to judge it too soon."
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