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Taking Flight: AQUILA Drone Proves Stability in Real-World Manual Flight Trials
The Astroflight department successfully conducted initial outdoor flight trials for the AQUILA fixed-wing and VTOL aircraft.
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Primary visual record // 17 MAR 2026
The Astroflight team took to the airfield to test the manual flight dynamics, stabilization gyros, and real-time telemetry downlink of the AQUILA reconnaissance aircraft.
Seamless drone and rover cooperative mapping
AQUILA is designed to scout ahead of LEAP-One, capturing high-resolution overhead orthomosaics and relaying terrain hazard data directly to the ground station.