![]() If the rotorcraft lands successfully and remains operable, up to four more flights could be attempted, each one building on the success of the last.” Entering the era of peak uncertainty for eVTOLs The JPL said, “If Ingenuity succeeds in taking off and hovering during its first flight, over 90 percent of the project’s goals will have been achieved. ![]() A 30-day experimental flight test window will follow. A series of battery charging cycles will take place, then the helicopter will be released by the rover. The Ingenuity helicopter that was carried to Mars by the Perseverance rover is successfully communicating with controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The first helicopter on Mars phones home after Perseverance rover landing See: FAA Seeks TRUST Administrators for Drone Pilot Test and Aeronautical Knowledge and Safety Test Updates. The FAA is inviting interested parties to submit applications to become testers and will announce selected test administrators in June 2021. Test content development and test administration is complete, now the FAA needs volunteers to become an FAA Approved Test Administrator of The Recreational UAS Safety Test (FAA Approved TA TRUST). ![]() The FAA developed a 3-step process to implement a nation-wide system to train and test all recreational drone pilots. ![]() UAV News The FAA wants you… to be a drone test administrator How to become a drone test administrator, Ingenuity phones home from Mars, lessons of the dot-com crash and the eVTOL market, a Skunk Works “Speed Racer,” Naval resupply with an autonomous UAS, and a new animated drone show record. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:19 - 22.3MB) ![]()
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