{"id":8023,"date":"2014-06-04T15:56:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T19:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8023"},"modified":"2014-06-04T15:57:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T19:57:29","slug":"scitech-update-on-urbanaeros-airmule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8023","title":{"rendered":"SciTech: Update on UrbanAero’s AirMule"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve posted several times over the years about UrbanAero’s AirMule<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0a vertical takeoff and landing vehicle with two ducted fans that is now being developed within\u00a0their\u00a0Tactical Robotics<\/a>\u00a0division. This week the BBC has a video report on the vehicle :\u00a0Could ambulance drones appear on the battlefield? – BBC?<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve posted several times over the years about UrbanAero’s AirMule\u00a0–\u00a0a vertical takeoff and landing vehicle with two ducted fans that is now being developed within\u00a0their\u00a0Tactical Robotics\u00a0division. This week the BBC has a video report on the vehicle :\u00a0Could ambulance drones appear on the battlefield? – BBC?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-25p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12014,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12014","url_meta":{"origin":8023,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech – Video: UrbanAero’s AirMule VTOL vehicle successfully demos untethered flight","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"For several years I've been following the efforts of\u00a0Israel's Urban Aeronautics\u00a0to develop a large ducted-fan vertical takeoff and landing vehicle. 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