FLARES – Flying Launch and Recovery System

FLARES – Flying Launch and Recovery System

Lifting a Scaneagle with an octocopter is impressive, dropping it cool, catching it crikey! The forces on the trailing line must have been immense.  Very impressive.

FLARES – Flying Launch and Recovery System from Insitu on Vimeo.

Very clever stuff from, I can’t help thinking they are just trying to catch up with the inventor of the scaneagle, Dr Tad McGeer.

Pandora from Aerovel does not need the Octo.


Yes we are shameless Pandora fans at sUAS News.

Gary Mortimer

Founder and Editor of sUAS News | Gary Mortimer has been a commercial balloon pilot for 25 years and also flies full-size helicopters. Prior to that, he made tea and coffee in air traffic control towers across the UK as a member of the Royal Air Force.