Spike Aerospace unmanned SX-1.2 demonstrator makes maiden flight

Spike Aerospace took to the skies for the first time on Saturday as it tested a subsonic, subscale version of its planned S-512 supersonic passenger plane. The unmanned SX-1.2 prototype demonstrator took off from a private airfield in New England with KrishnaKumar Malu and Mike Ridlon piloting it remotely on the first of a series of seven short flights throughout the day, to prove the validity of the aircraft's aerodynamics.

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