Advanced Aircraft Company Greased Lightning

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Prototype hybrid electric multi-rotor VTOL UAV, with fixed wing transition. NASA technology commercialised by Advanced Aircraft Company. In development.

Advanced Aircraft Company Greased Lightning

Lift type

Tilt-rotor

Assembly

Factory-built

Control

Autonomous

Engine type

Electric, Hybrid

Application

Experimental

Design & construction

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Airframe & structure

Primary structure

Composite

Wing

Composite

Landing gear

Fixed tricycle

Ice protection

None

Pressurisation

Unpressurised

Systems & avionics

Flight controls

Full FBW digital

Autopilot

3-axis

Avionics architecture

Integrated glass suite

Configuration & certification

Certification

Experimental-LSA

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Type variants

Variant	Launch / first flight	Production end	Notes
Advanced Aircraft Company Greased Lightning	/		Tiltwing UAS, originally conceived as NASA GL-10 Greased Lightning.

Airframer

Advanced Aircraft Company

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