On Nov. 4, Shield AI's head of aircraft engineering wrote that the first full-scale X-BAT prototype is complete and is traveling from Frisco, Texas, to the Newton, Kansas flight-test site. The planned tests are a horizontal engine run, a vertical run, crane-suspended trials, and then untethered flights. The post aims to fly a missionized aircraft in 2028 and start production in 2029, and it does not report an engine run or a flight.
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