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The Pentagon’s controversial plan to hit terrorists half a planet away suffered a setback this weekend, after an experimental hypersonic glider disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. In its first flight test. the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) was supposed to be rocket-launched from California to the edge of space.
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The Air Force has launched an experimental hypersonic glider able to travel more than 4,000 miles in 30 minutes over the Pacific Ocean. The 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base says a Minotaur 4 rocket carrying the glider blasted off Thursday afternoon from the central California coast. The Air Force statement does not reveal the result of the test involving the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2. A fact sheet from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says the vehicle was to be accelerated into the upper atmosphere, separate from its booster and glide across the Pacific at 13,000...
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It weighs only 30 pounds and can be fully weaponized for assault and rescue. It has a 6-foot jet-wing that is steered with handheld rotary controls connected to its rudder. And it can hide more than 100 pounds of combat gear in a built-in compartment. The Gryphon attack glider, designed to penetrate combat zones at 135 miles per hour, could revolutionize the art of parachuting. It has got to be at the top of James Bond’s Christmas list this year. Click here to see video of the Gryphon glider in action.
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Laser powered glider Solar-powered drone planes could carry on cruising through the night, with a little help from sharp-shooting ground lasers. Nobuki Kawashima and colleagues from Kinki University in southern Japan recently used a ground laser to power a super lightweight uncrewed aircraft. The simple propeller-powered aircraft is 78 cm long and weighs just 800 grams. It was tested in a large auditorium called the Osaka Dome, near the university. The plane used a battery to get up into the air but, at 50 metres, relied entirely on power drawn from a laser aimed at solar panels underneath. The researchers...
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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) -- In a first for the U.S. Navy, an underwater glider was launched with the aid of Navy divers from the Dry Deck Shelter aboard USS Buffalo (SSN 715) Nov. 14. The glider is a uniquely mobile network component capable of moving to specific locations and depths and gathering various information, which is transmitted on a predetermined interval when it surfaces to computers via a built-in satellite phone. “Our interest in the submarine force has been to use these to characterize the ocean,” explained Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Cross, Pacific Submarine Force oceanographer. “They’re equipped with sensors...
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<p>The U.S. Navy plans to begin testing a prototype for an unmanned underwater glider with a flying-wing design in March, according to the Office of Naval Research, which funds the project.</p><p>If successful, tests of the Flying Wing Underwater Glider could lead to a new generation of gliders that researchers expect to be the largest and fastest to date. They would be capable of traveling thousands of miles under ocean waves, quietly conducting surveillance and gathering data for military and civilian purposes, researchers said. "Gliders have the potential of providing long-endurance mobile platforms for employing sensors," said Thomas Franklin Swean Jr., team leader for Ocean Engineering and Marine Systems Science and Technology at the Office of Naval Research, which has spent $500,000 on the project so far. "The endurance is measured in months rather than hours or days."</p>
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AMERICAN adventurer and businessman Steve Fossett took off today on his latest bid to set the world glider altitude record, in a flight over the snowcapped mountains of southern New Zealand. Fossett and former NASA test pilot Einar Enevoldson set off in the afternoon into mountain wave wind conditions they hope will lift their glider to heights above the current record of 14,935 metres. If successful, the flight to the north of New Zealand's highest peak, the 3,754-metre Mount Cook, was expected to take about five hours. The wind was expected to continue improving until midnight. "There's the potential...
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Photo: Return to Kitty Hawk Web site FATAL CRASH - Eugene LANO - The first day of a transcontinental glider race brought tragedy as one of several dozen pilots was killed Thursday when he crashed in the Angeles National Forest. Eugene Carapetyan, 61, of Corona del Mar was one of about 45 pilots competing in the Return to Kitty Hawk transcontinental glider race commemorating the centennial of Orville and Wilbur Wright's first flight. Carapetyan was killed when his craft crashed in the San Gabriel Mountains. The pilot, who delivered aircraft parts for Beechcraft before retiring two years ago, is survived...
Published on Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:46:45 PM
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