Unmanned Vehicles
Hidron stratospheric glider reaches new heights
Stratodynamics and UAVOS have carried out another flight of the Hidron unmanned stratospheric glider, during which it reached and flew at an altitude of 30km.
This breaks a previous record of flying at 25km, and this recent night flight was the first of two that have been commissioned to test ...
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