FreightWaves Classics: I-8 runs an interesting course in California and Arizona A rather confusing set of road signs. (Photo: Free 3D)
Interstate 8 (I-8) is an interstate highway that stretches from the southern edge of Mission Bay in San Diego, California, to its junction with I-10, just southeast of Casa Grande, Arizona. The route is 348.25 miles long.
Interesting facts
In California, I-8 runs through the San Diego metropolitan area as the Ocean Beach Freeway and the Mission Valley Freeway before traversing the Cuyamaca Mountains and the Imperial Valley. It crosses the Colorado River into Arizona, and goes through Yuma, crosses the Sonoran Desert and ends at its intersection with I-10 near Casa Grande, in between Phoenix and Tucson.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 01, 2021 at 8:26 AM
ALTIUS mini-drone in flight over Yuma Proving Ground.
WASHINGTON: Venture-capital backed defense firm Anduril announced today it has acquired Area-I, maker of the ALTIUS multi-purpose mini-drone.
In field experiments, ALTIUS has been launched from Air Force Special Operations AC-130 gunships and Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. The mini-drone gives the larger, more expensive manned aircraft an expendable scout they can sent ahead into danger. The Army’s Project Convergence experiments in particular have used ALTIUS as a surrogate for future Air-Launched Effects (ALE).
“The ALTIUS product is incredible…the most flexible, capable platform you have in this space” of air-launched mini-drones, Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf told me. It’s been successfully fitted with multiple types of sensors and launched from multiple types of platform.