Not only Le Bourget: given the number of new events in the field of unmanned aircraft announced at the Paris Air Show (see our report in this issue), one could have expected that little else had not been specifically 'earmarked' for this French grand aerospace meeting. What follows proves the contrary.

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Not only Le Bourget: given the number of new events in the field of unmanned aircraft announced at the Paris Air Show (see our report in this issue), one could have expected that little else had not been specifically 'earmarked' for this French grand aerospace meeting. What follows proves the contrary.

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The use of blimps and airships controlled 'a la unmanned air vehicle' has been visited in past issues of Armada, but here comes a new breed of drone, courtesy of D-Star Engineering. Known as the Aerolenscraft, this new vehicle is designed for very long endurance (up to one year) operation at 65,000 ft, and therefore constitutes a first step in bridging the gap between hales and satellites.

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