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In 2010, the Zephyr unmanned aircraft stayed aloft for two straight weeks high above U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG), setting a world record. In 2018, an upgraded Zephyr returned to YPG and shattered its previous record, flying continuously for 25 days, 23 hours, and 57 minutes in YPG’s vast air space at altitudes far higher than normally achieved by commercial airplanes.
This year, the same aircraft used in 2018 returned to YPG, albeit with some differences. The Zephyr crew labored at YPG since late last year utilizing test flight vehicles constructed at 30% scale of the actual Zephyr and an instrumented full-sized aircraft that flew 18 days over YPG collecting data prior to the most recent record-setting flight.
| Date Taken: | 07.16.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 10.12.2021 17:21 |
| Photo ID: | 6883883 |
| VIRIN: | 210716-A-AB000-572 |
| Resolution: | 4912x7360 |
| Size: | 4.26 MB |
| Location: | YUMA PROVING GROUND, AZ, US |
| Web Views: | 748 |
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