Aerospace Monitoring

Textron is working on a new ground control system that will be able to switch between its Aerosonde and Shadow unmanned air systems with merely the flick of a switch. James Hetherington, regional vice-president Middle East operations at Textron Systems, says that the new system should be ready to announce to the market within the next year. “The new one that we are going to come up with will have a switch where you can go from Shadow to Aerosonde, just by flicking the switch,” he says. This should…