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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]
A different research and development project with the goal of designing an intelligent flight control system is being carried out at University College London. Their prototype is known as the Intelligent Autopilot System which has Artificial Neural Networks capable of learning from human teachers by imitation.
Precision Manuals Development Group (often abbreviated as PMDG) is a commercial add-on aircraft developer for the Microsoft Flight Simulator, [1] Lockheed Martin Prepar3D, [2] and X-Plane [3] series. The company was founded by Robert S. Randazzo, who stated that his ultimate goal was to develop the software to the point where it could be used ...
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 ArduPilot project earliest roots date back to late 2007 [11] when Jordi Munoz, who later co-founded 3DRobotics with Chris Anderson, wrote an Arduino program (which he called "ArduCopter") to stabilize an RC Helicopter. In 2009 Munoz and Anderson released Ardupilot 1.0 [12] (flight controller software) along with a hardware board it could ...
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
On 2 September 2018, Jim Payne and Tim Gardner reached an altitude of 22,657 m (74,334 ft), [2] surpassing the 73,737 ft (22,475 m) attained by Jerry Hoyt on 17 April 1989 in a Lockheed U-2: the highest manned, heavier-than-air, subsonic flight. The Perlan 2 could fly to 90,000 ft (27,000 m) if conditions allow, higher than the manned level ...
The flight test engineer generally has overall responsibility for the planning of a specific flight test phase, which includes preparing the test plans in conjunction with other analytical and/or systems engineers, overseeing the buildup of the aircraft to the proper configuration, working with the flight test instrumentation engineer to ensure the sensors and recording systems are installed ...