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Main hangar - under construction
This image was taken on a recent tour of the Spaceport America construction site, near Truth or Consequences, NM USA.
Copyright Chad Person for Ideum, 2011
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More info from Raven B Model - Iteration 10. Mach 8-10 Hypersonic Business Jet. Previous post lnkd.in/enxwifA was a new iteration update. Cleaning some things up, as I am not a graphics designer. Engineering, physics, etc yes. This post covers some technical aspects while still sanitizing everything.
For full size images, click thumbnail images on the website: www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/raven-business.php
Overall, this single aircraft design that is ready for building and going into serial production absolutely obliterates Lockheed's SR-72 (Mach 5) by DOUBLE the margins and a fraction of the costs, and BOOM, Virgin Galactic, etc.
Sure it can economically cruise at Mach 3-4.5 supersonically at under 50% throttle as well, but 7,000-8,000 NM Range at Mach 10 at over 100,000ft altitude and normalized hypersonic flight along with 6,000F thermal resistence.
A - Model is the SSTO (Single Stage to Orbit) version here: lnkd.in/efbmk_W
#afrl #afwerx #defensewerx #usaf #darpa #onr #arl #boeing #lockheedmartin #airbus #raytheon #northropgrumman #aerojet #dynetics #easa #bae #afosr #hypersonic #supersonic #scramjet #reactionengines #innovation #graphene #hydrogen #spacex #ula #virgingalactic #rocketlab #nasa #snc #sierranevadecorporation #dreamchaser #sdo #sda #spaceforce #dod #icao #dassault #bombardier #gulfstream #cessna #bigalow #boomsuprsonic #aerion #esa #easa #airplane
*Note, I use colors in my cad blocks and layer. I could easily tint/grey them out. I could care less how others do it. ALL dynamics are highly refined for normalized sustained Mach 10 flight. Extensive CFD refinement over many years, along with material science, and several upcoming patent filings for individual technology advancements, along with 2nd gen high pressure conforming tanks that utilize graphene inner shells at 2,000,000 PSI tensile strength normalizing 16,000 PSI high pressure storage vessels. Everything else is already developed as well.
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More info from Raven B Model - Iteration 10. Mach 8-10 Hypersonic Business Jet. Previous post lnkd.in/enxwifA was a new iteration update. Cleaning some things up, as I am not a graphics designer. Engineering, physics, etc yes. This post covers some technical aspects while still sanitizing everything.
For full size images, click thumbnail images on the website: www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/raven-business.php
Overall, this single aircraft design that is ready for building and going into serial production absolutely obliterates Lockheed's SR-72 (Mach 5) by DOUBLE the margins and a fraction of the costs, and BOOM, Virgin Galactic, etc.
Sure it can economically cruise at Mach 3-4.5 supersonically at under 50% throttle as well, but 7,000-8,000 NM Range at Mach 10 at over 100,000ft altitude and normalized hypersonic flight along with 6,000F thermal resistence.
A - Model is the SSTO (Single Stage to Orbit) version here: lnkd.in/efbmk_W
#afrl #afwerx #defensewerx #usaf #darpa #onr #arl #boeing #lockheedmartin #airbus #raytheon #northropgrumman #aerojet #dynetics #easa #bae #afosr #hypersonic #supersonic #scramjet #reactionengines #innovation #graphene #hydrogen #spacex #ula #virgingalactic #rocketlab #nasa #snc #sierranevadecorporation #dreamchaser #sdo #sda #spaceforce #dod #icao #dassault #bombardier #gulfstream #cessna #bigalow #boomsuprsonic #aerion #esa #easa #airplane
*Note, I use colors in my cad blocks and layer. I could easily tint/grey them out. I could care less how others do it. ALL dynamics are highly refined for normalized sustained Mach 10 flight. Extensive CFD refinement over many years, along with material science, and several upcoming patent filings for individual technology advancements, along with 2nd gen high pressure conforming tanks that utilize graphene inner shells at 2,000,000 PSI tensile strength normalizing 16,000 PSI high pressure storage vessels. Everything else is already developed as well.
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A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
Mojave goof-off session at Virgin Galactic's White Knight (EVE) unveiling, shot by Brian Lam (gizmodo.com)
The hand-wringing over the failure of the Orbital Sciences resupply rocket and the fatal failure of SpaceShipTwo reminded me of some earlier hand-wringing, and what happened afterward. It's a difficult road, but one worth traveling.
Virgin Atlantic Airways - Boeing 747-41R - G-VWOW (c/n 32745/1287) - Cosmic Girl
UPDATE (December 2015) "Cosmic Girl" was withdrawn from Virgin Atlantic operation in October 2015. She is slated to become Virgin Galactic's "LauncherOne" air-launched satellite lifter after modifications are made to strengthen the vestigial structure of the inboard left wing formerly intended to ferry a spare "fifth" engine to now hold a 55,000-lb. rocket.
UPDATE (January 2017) - On November 12, 2015 this aircraft was re-registered by Virgin Galactic as N744VG.
UPDATE (November 2017) - On March 2, 2017, Richard Branson announced the splitting of LauncherOne operations from Virgin Galactic to a new entity, Virgin Orbit.
Feathered Flight during SpaceShipTwo's third powered flight on 10 January 2014 over the Mojave desert.
This image was taken by MARS Scientific as part of the Mobile Aerospace Reconnaissance System optical tracking system.
More infomation on MARS Scientific and the Mobile Aerospace Reconnaissance System can be found at: www.MarsScientific.com
This image has been supplied to www.traveloscopy.com on the understanding it is copyright released and/or royalty free.
Bought my very first duty-free product while in flight on Virgin Atlantic yesterday: a model of Virgin Galactic's spaceship!
Iteration 10 - Raven B Model - Mach 8-10, 22 Passenger hypersonic business jet. New iteration reflects design changes from Raven A Model, which is an SSTO, a real one. ALL technologies associated "are" developed. It is also ZERO CARBON.
More Info: www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/raven-business.php
Not a graphics design or graphics rendering, but sanitized cad screenshots. This is not a concept, but ready for serial production. Not really looking for investors and such. Everything DOD is funding for hypersonic fixed aircraft is OLD and rehashed perpetually for 40+ years at 10X the price. Others, pushing supersonics and hypersonics, also very old technologies at very expensive prices and operating costs. This, about the same as a G650 or Global Express costs and operating costs and normalized Mach 10 dynamics in all regards in atmosphere.
#afrl #afwerx #defensewerx #usaf #darpa #onr #arl #boeing #lockheedmartin #airbus #raytheon #northropgrumman #aerojet #dynetics #easa #bae #afosr #hypersonic #supersonic #scramjet #reactionengines #innovation #graphene #hydrogen #spacex #ula #virgingalactic #rocketlab #nasa #snc #sierranevadecorporation #dreamchaser #sdo #sda #spaceforce #dod #icao #dassault #bombardier #gulfstream #cessna #bigalow #boomsuprsonic #aerion #esa #airplane
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
Falcon VTOL - VTOL Hypersonic Business Jet (This is not a graphics design)
New iteration update, Raven SSTO, up to 15,000 LBS payloads to orbit for apx $2 mln per launch. Compresses O2 and H2 fueled, not liquid fueled. Graphene Airframe, 6,000+F thermal resistance. Air Breathing Aerospike, along with the primary U-TBCC propulsion.
Details at link www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/falcon.php
Link to Conforming Tank Patent patents.google.com/patent/US20210080060
Link to Engines/Propulsion www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/utbcc.php
Falcon VTOL is a completely new aircraft design, next generation technologies, and capabilities never seen before. As seen here, anything released publicly are early iterations to get a good look and feel for the aircraft type publicly. But rest assured, every single aspect of this aircraft, the technologies, physics, and systems are already developed.
vtol, hypersonic, hypersonics, business jet, tbcc, nasa, nrl, onr, navsea, afrl, arl, jpl,
Virgin Orbit
Virgin Galactic
Sierra Nevada Corporation
Aevum Inc
NASA
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
AFOSR, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
AFWERX
United States Air Force
Air Force Research Laboratory
Firefly Aerospace
ESA - European Space Agency
SpaceX
Axiom Space
Airbus
Airbus Defence
BAE Systems
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Lockheed Martin
Raytheon Technologies
Rolls-Royce plc
National Reconnaissance Office
The Aerospace Corporation
Collins Aerospace
BlackSky
United Launch Alliance
TÉLÉSAT
ONE.Web
ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization
Dassault Aviation
United States Space Force
Blue Origin
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Arianespace
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
ok, this one´s already famous... kyoto university, robogarage (? not quite sure)
but several future technologies showed up to experience today.
like an illuminated handbag to load electronical gadgets, driven by solar energy,
like digital cigarettes and WLAN wine glasses *g, different kind of cars (cells, hydrogen etc), space tourism by virgingalactic, basketball playing robots, dancebots, DJbots, windcraft for home use (high potential to be successful and useful), various art- and music objects, the new blackberry, first technologies to try 3D TV etc... enjoyed it very much!
Virgin Atlantic Airways - Boeing 747-41R - G-VWOW (c/n 32745/1287) - Cosmic Girl
UPDATE (December 2015) "Cosmic Girl" was withdrawn from Virgin Atlantic operation in October 2015. She is slated to become Virgin Galactic's "LauncherOne" air-launched satellite lifter after modifications are made to strengthen the vestigial structure of the inboard left wing formerly intended to ferry a spare "fifth" engine to now hold a 55,000-lb. rocket.
UPDATE (January 2017) - On November 12, 2015 this aircraft was re-registered by Virgin Galactic as N744VG.
UPDATE (November 2017) - On March 2, 2017, Richard Branson announced the splitting of LauncherOne operations from Virgin Galactic to a new entity, Virgin Orbit.
Nicely put together... part of the new Museum of Flight Charles Simonyi Space Gallery. White Knight Two will simply lift SpaceShipTwo to launch height, let SpaceShipTwo unhitch and rocket itself to suborbital altitude...
BTW, I cropped this pic to keep a distracting element out of it :-). To learn more about this commercial space venture... go to www.virgingalactic.com/
Sir Richard Branson and his mother Eve celebrate the roll out of WhiteKnightTwo, named VMS Eve after her. Credit Herb Lingl
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
Falcon VTOL - VTOL Hypersonic Business Jet (This is not a graphics design)
New iteration update, Raven SSTO, up to 15,000 LBS payloads to orbit for apx $2 mln per launch. Compresses O2 and H2 fueled, not liquid fueled. Graphene Airframe, 6,000+F thermal resistance. Air Breathing Aerospike, along with the primary U-TBCC propulsion.
Details at link www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/falcon.php
Link to Conforming Tank Patent patents.google.com/patent/US20210080060
Link to Engines/Propulsion www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/utbcc.php
Falcon VTOL is a completely new aircraft design, next generation technologies, and capabilities never seen before. As seen here, anything released publicly are early iterations to get a good look and feel for the aircraft type publicly. But rest assured, every single aspect of this aircraft, the technologies, physics, and systems are already developed.
vtol, hypersonic, hypersonics, business jet, tbcc, nasa, nrl, onr, navsea, afrl, arl, jpl,
Virgin Orbit
Virgin Galactic
Sierra Nevada Corporation
Aevum Inc
NASA
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
AFOSR, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
AFWERX
United States Air Force
Air Force Research Laboratory
Firefly Aerospace
ESA - European Space Agency
SpaceX
Axiom Space
Airbus
Airbus Defence
BAE Systems
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Lockheed Martin
Raytheon Technologies
Rolls-Royce plc
National Reconnaissance Office
The Aerospace Corporation
Collins Aerospace
BlackSky
United Launch Alliance
TÉLÉSAT
ONE.Web
ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization
Dassault Aviation
United States Space Force
Blue Origin
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Arianespace
Sir Richard Branson and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson greet the crowd after landing in Branson’s private jet as they make their way to the dais to celebrate the runway dedication and also bring the audience up to date on terminal hangar facility progress.
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.