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Columbia and Aurora Team On Vision System

Columbia Helicopters and Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences team to develop vision system for daylight firefighting.

By Mark Huber • Contributor

May 6, 2021

Columbia Helicopters and Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences are collaborating to explore the development of an enhanced pilot situational awareness (EPSA) degraded visual environment (DVE) flight capability on a Columbia helicopter to be used for aerial firefighting. The DVE flight system is expected to combine onboard sensor inputs with Aurora’s automated trajectory planning technology to identify safe flight paths.

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