New Hexa flight
Brad Bollig, a LIFT team member, secures a battery to one of the Hexa’s motors before its first flight at a military airfield at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The Hexa team completed the aircraft’s flight test via remote control. The aircraft, which used 18 motors and propellors, flew for approximately 10 minutes and reached a height of about 50 feet. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)