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This Month's Covers....
Front Cover: Top: A ScanEagle makes an arrested recovery on the Skyhook recovery system aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Comstock in the Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joseph M. Buliavac
(2011), released into the public domain. Recently, a prototype sense and avoid system was tested at Watts Bridge Memorial
Airfield, Queensland, Australia onboard a ScanEagle unmanned aircraft. For more information on the SAA Flight Test and
Evaluation campaign, read the article by Wilson et al., "Flight Test and Evaluation of a Prototype Sense and Avoid System
Onboard a Scan Eagle Unmanned Aircraft," on pages 6-16 in this issue. Bottom: NASA's Ikhana (foreground) participated in
flight testing of collision avoidance technology with Honeywell's specially instrumented twin-engine King Air (background) in
2015. The King Air served as an intruder during flight testing. Photo Credit: NASA/Ken Ulbrich. The article "Proof-of-Concept
Airborne Sense and Avoid System with ACAS-XU Flight Test" by T. Kotegawa on pages 53-62 discusses the flight-testing of
collision-avoidance and self-separation technology that contributes to ongoing development of a technical standard for a sense/
detect-and-avoid system for UAS.
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