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Aevum’s Sleek Space Launch Drone Turns Heads at Long Beach Airport

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Aevum’s Sleek Space Launch Drone Turns Heads at Long Beach Airport
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After years of little activity, the Ravn X rolled out of a hangar at Long Beach Airport for its very first autonomous taxi tests and caught the attention of local enthusiasts. Designed to launch small payloads into space, its planned first mission in 2021 has still yet to take place. 
At eighty feet long and with a wingspan of sixty feet, the Ravn X is a huge autonomous aircraft said to pack two afterburning turbofan engines that allow high subsonic flight up to an altitude of 60,000 feet.

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