The (Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System) ARES-DV Flight Module lifted off from Piasecki’s West Helipad in Essington, Pennsylvania on Friday, September 6th, and achieved a sustained hover for a duration of approximately one minute before descending. Upon landing, the team attached…
Piasecki Aircraft Corporation has been awarded a $37 million multi-year contract by AFWERX and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) program. This substantial funding is aimed at advancing Piasecki’s Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES)…
EAGELS (Expendable Airlift Glider Expeditionary Logistics System) is an SBIR Phase II program sponsored by DARPA (US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) for the development and flight demonstration of a low cost, unmanned glider aircraft that would deliver a high…
The Air ScoutⓇ is a tandem ducted fan VTOL UAS designed to operate as an organic asset for small ground combat units for RSTA, combat resupply, and other missions. The Air ScoutⓇ is a scaled down version of PiAC’s Air…
Turais® is a multi-mission, air-launched modular UAV developed under a US Navy SBIR for a ‘Wing and Bomb Bay Launched UAS.” Turais® is configured with a Heavy Fuel Engine/Propeller module and high aspect ratio wing. Turais® is deployable in-flight from…
The overarching objective of the Adaptive Digital Automated Pilotage Technology (ADAPT™) Flight Control Technology Demonstration Program is to develop and demonstrate a cohesive flight control software package designed to achieve revolutionary improvements in safety/survivability, performance, and affordability for US military…
ARES is an innovative modular multi-mission vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned tilt-wing aerial system (UAS). It comprises a common, optionally manned Flight Module with interchangeable Mission Payload Modules. ARES is designed with a small landing footprint to enable shipboard…