On the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition “Architect Carlo Mollino – create modernity”, in Turin, Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company, has presented for the first time the Molynx, study of a newgeneration
UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) to be used for land monitoring and surveillance.
The general layout of the new aircraft, displayed within the exhibition in scale 1:4, reminds the aeronautic passion of Mollino who designed many, especially acrobatic, aircraft during his career as designer. And in fact one of these project, for a 4/5-seat twin-engine air vehicle, has inspired the Molynx project, an unmanned, surveillance aircraft operating at high altitudes (up to 45.000 feet) with a long endurance (up to 30 hours).
The Molynx...