Boeing Little Bird Completes Autonomous Landing Procedures

Lyle Chamberlain a Research Engineer at Near Earth Autonomy, shows how Boeing’s Unmanned Little Bird uses LIDAR to identify the best landing site.The Unmanned Little Bird Demonstrator is a modified MD 530F single-turbine helicopter designed for optionally manned flight. It won the AHS 2005 Grover E. Bell award for the best advancement in rotorcraft research that year. The platform is capable of dual pilot, single pilot or no pilot flight operations. It can be remotely operated or programmed for autonomous operations in any of these operational modes.

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