Randle Engineering Leads Design for Advanced UAV Project with Certo Aerospace
Randle Engineering Ltd, a British engineering consultancy, is leading the design efforts for Certo Aerospace Technologies Ltd's Capstone project, which involves developing larger and heavy fuel versions of a heavy-lift uncrewed helicopter. The Capstone, a coaxial twin-rotor aircraft, is currently in its third year of flight trials under CAA authorization. It is designed to be more efficient and scalable than traditional helicopters, capable of carrying a 300kg payload. Randle Engineering is focusing on optimizing the payload mass to maximum take-off weight ratio, which is already at 50%. The project is part of a competitive tender for the UK's Ministry of Defence program, Project NYX.