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Project Fresson is the development by Cranfield Aerospace of an electric propulsion system for the over 700 BN-2 Islanders currently operated, supported by Britten-Norman. [ 2 ] Development
The Perlan 2 is a follow-up design to the successful Perlan 1. Its design goal is to reach and exceed 90,000 ft (27 km) in altitude. The project's goals include science, engineering and education. The aircraft will be used to study the northern polar vortex and its influence on global weather patterns. [2]
Aquila is intended to fly at altitudes of up to 90,000 feet (27,000 m) during the day, [1] dropping to 60,000 feet (18,000 m) at night, with an endurance of up to three months, providing Internet service to a 50 miles (80 km)-radius area below its flight path; [3] if communications spectrum was assigned for the project, it would allow the 66% ...
The aircraft's name is a reference to the Klingon Bird of Prey warship from the Star Trek television series. [2] Phantom Works later became part of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems after the Boeing–McDonnell Douglas merger in 1997. The first flight was in 1996, and 39 more flights were performed through the program's conclusion in 1999. [1]
In 2014, Airbus agreed to become the title sponsor, and provide sufficient funding for completion of the aircraft, flight testing and the altitude flights. The mission was renamed the Airbus Perlan Mission II. RDD Enterprises, an aviation research, design and development company based in Redmond, Oregon, took over the manufacture of the Perlan 2.
The designation Project Zero was derived from an observation that this was a unique internal project with no comparable counterpart within the company's history. [2] The development of Project Zero was conducted within a short amount of time; the time between the start of the design phase and the first flight of the demonstrator itself was less ...
In the 1990s, E Squadron was known to the wider military under its cover name, "Flight Concepts Division". It also had several cover and code names including "Latent Arrow". [7] By 2017, the organization's cover identity had been renamed to the Aviation Technology Office. [2] [14] [15]
The Reusable Launch Vehicle Hypersonic Flight Experiment or RLV HEX was the first test flight in the RLV Technology Demonstration Programme. HEX was successfully conducted on 23 May 2016. [2] [37] [38] RLV-TD consists of a fuselage (body), a nose cap, double