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Scorpion Free-Wing
The aviation world is surprisingly littered with promising yet discarded manned and unmanned aircraft designs. A fascinating example is the Scorpion Freewing reconnaissance UAV, a design developed by world famous aircraft designer Burt Rutan (founder of Scaled Composites) in association with the Freewing Aerial Robotics Corporation and the University of Maryland, College Park. The Freewing was a uniquely configured piston-powered short takeoff and landing (STOL) UAV -- the fuselage pivoted relative to the wing surfaces....
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