That morning, we originally departed from Xwing’s hangar at Buchanan Field Airport in Concord, California, just northeast of San Francisco. However, I did see Di Francesco manually fly the airplane earlier during our flight demonstration. But the Superpilot worked exactly as planned during my demonstration flight, and no pilot intervention was necessary during the autonomous landing and subsequent takeoff at Yolo County Airport. The role of the onboard pilot-in this case, Xwing’s safety pilot, Gabriele Di Francesco-is to supervise the autonomous flight, and to take control of the aircraft only on the off chance that there’s a problem with the Superpilot. Inside Xwing's mobile mission control center at Yolo County Airport, Xwing’s flight test operations manager, Craig Milliard, monitors the autonomous flights. However, during our demonstration, adjustments to the planned flight path were all done remotely by Xwing’s ground controllers, located in a small trailer at the airport. The San Francisco-based company says its Superpilot system can automatically detect and avoid hazards, such as other aircraft, both in the air and on the ground. The Superpilot combines data from those sensors with real-time airspace, airport, weather, and terrain map data to create a comprehensive view of its environment.
The aircraft is equipped with dozens of sensors, as well as cameras, radar, and LIDAR systems mounted under the aircraft’s wing.
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Xwing's Superpilot uses a combination of software and hardware to control the aircraft while providing complete situational awareness. The company has been flight-testing its Superpilot autonomous flight system for the last two years under an experimental certificate for research and development purposes, and it achieved the first fully autonomous gate-to-gate flight in February 2021. Rather than have a safety pilot on board, as there was during my demonstration flight, Xwing will have ground controllers supervising multiple simultaneous flights from the company's mission control center. Although, since it was issued in the final year of the Empire Strikes Back run, the toy was initially released in an ESB box, it is much easier to find in the later ROTJ packaging.Xwing aims to operate a fleet of these modified Cessnas under a supplemental type certificate, which will allow it to use the unpiloted aircraft for autonomous cargo delivery flights. But I'm not bitter.Īnyway, the newer X-Wing also differed from its earlier counterpart in terms of coloration (it was gray rather than white), tinted canopy (as opposed to clear) and black engine well inserts (which had been white on the original toy). So, basically, you were left with the tackiest looking X-Wing Fighter imaginable- one with smudgy stripes and haphazard red and yellow finger prints. Then you were left with a vehicle that had no decals at all and you had to beg your dad to paint the vehicle's stripes on with cheap model paint. And I can tell you from experience, the things weren't designed to be temporary- to get them off, you had to literally scrub the toy down, removing not only the offending battle damage decals, but the standard ones as well. Or, if you were like me ( Ron), you applied them and then immediately decided you hated the way they looked. What they came up with was the so-called "Battle Damaged" X-Wing, a toy that actually was designed to look beat up! Actually, a sheet of "battle damage" decals was included with the toy, so that kids could apply them to their X-Wings and thereby make them look more realistic. In 1982, Kenner decide to freshen one of their most popular Star Wars toys, the X-Wing Fighter vehicle. Two "AA" batteries and Action Figures not included. X-WING FIGHTER also features a movable front landing gear and laser lights and sounds. The cockpit opens to hold an Action Figure.
This dramatic reproduction of LUKE SKYWALKER'S X-WING FIGHTER is now better than ever! Two sheets of self-sticking labels let kids choose between an X-WING FIGHTER that looks "brand new" or "Battle Damaged"! Push the simulated R2-D2 and the wings open to the attack position.
Comp Sheet for Unproduced POTF X-Wing Package.
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Battle Damaged X-Wing Fighter - Star Wars Collectors Archive
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