Week on the web

On the 25th anniversary of the first Airbus A320 flight, FlightBlogger argued that the narrowbody type's single biggest contribution to commercial aerospace is its digital fly-by-wire flight control system. On the Asian Skies blog, Greg Waldron posted test-flight footage of China's Sunward Tech Star-Lite SVU200 vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle (UAV). Ariel View's Arie Egozi profiled Sky Sapience's tethered hovering platform for small vehicles, the HoverMast (above), which will be displayed at the AUVSI international conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 20-22. On The DEW Line, Stephen Trimble used "the Goldilocks method" to analyse a mystery UAV snapped in flight over Uzbekistan: "Predator/Gray Eagle/Reaper is too big, yet the UAV still seems too small to be a Hermes 900. China's Pterodactyl/Wing Loong, however, seems just right."