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AeroVironment Puma UAS Breaks Own Record At Nine Hours

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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

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AeroVironment (AVAV) recently announced that it has flown its Puma small unmanned aircraft for over nine hours, powered by an onboard fuel cell battery hybrid energy storage system. This breaks the previous announced Puma flight record of over seven hours. A two-camera payload system provided a live, streaming video feed from the Puma, the largest of AV's portfolio of small unmanned aircraft systems that also includes Raven and Wasp. The nine-hour flight duration more than triples the duration of Puma's…

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