Royal Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office Begins Airborne Testbed Hunt

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The requested testbed will be in addition to the Boeing 757 being adapted by 2Excel Aviation.
Credit: Leonardo
LONDON—The UK Royal Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) wants to acquire its own flying testbed for rapid development and demonstrations of equipment. Project Degas is looking for potential providers of an aircraft which can be modified to carry “an as yet unspecified payload” weighing...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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