{"id":123736,"date":"2024-09-10T01:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/cessna-caravan-automated-flight\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T01:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T15:30:12","slug":"an-automated-cessna-caravan-has-begun-uncrewed-flight-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=123736","title":{"rendered":"An Automated Cessna Caravan Has Begun Uncrewed Flight Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                            On Thursday, September 5, Merlin revealed that its <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/cessna\">Cessna<\/a> Caravan aircraft had officially begun its flight test campaign. Merlin, which is a leading developer of autonomous flight technology in the fixed-wing aircraft industry, has equipped this specific Cessna Caravan with its Merlin Pilot platform. This platform, which has already been displayed on several aircraft, powers the aircraft and operates the                                 <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2031499\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/cessna-caravan-evolution-guide\/\" >Cessna Caravan<\/a><\/span>                                         without a pilot, flying the aircraft autonomously.                 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft will soon undergo FAA validation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,869,1260,1465,1472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-automation","category-cessna","category-cessna-caravan","category-general-aviation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123737,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123736\/revisions\/123737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}