Pssst, can someone enlighten BAe, it goes the other way up
Not Jetex engines. These were small gas turbines. Kestrel, Raven and Corax were stepping stones to Taranis and were quite small (certainly than might be gauged from the photos). I would say no more than 3-5 metres across.
Who knows, maybe we'll see them in a Museum in the future?
LJ
Who knows, maybe we'll see them in a Museum in the future?
LJ
Leon - purely out of interest, were they really serious about actually building the REPLICA?
How close did they get?
It certainly looks the part - what a shame.
How close did they get?
It certainly looks the part - what a shame.
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X-47A and some of the early Firescout development aircraft are in the museum at NAS Pax River in Maryland. X-47B is often in the overhead too, which shows how far the USN have come in similar timescales with similar thoughts.
...wot no Ken Wallis!
LJ,
Very interested to see that RPV Autogiro.
W.Vinten. Ltd. successfully built and flew a prototype full scale RPV version of the Wallis Autogiro around 1985.
Named the Vindicator ( guilty!
), it was later lost on an overseas flight demonstration.
Very interested to see that RPV Autogiro.
W.Vinten. Ltd. successfully built and flew a prototype full scale RPV version of the Wallis Autogiro around 1985.
Named the Vindicator ( guilty!
), it was later lost on an overseas flight demonstration.
Tartare
I don't know the full "ins and outs" of Project REPLICA, but I did see it. It is a life size mcok up and covered in very expensive RADAR Absorbent Material (RAM) which isn't cheap - so they must have been pretty serious. It was one of mamy solutions to replace GR4 - others of which included Tornado 2000 with a faceted nose, redesigned intakes but still the mahoosive fin! There was also the FOAS concept UCAV which spawned into the smaller technology demonstrators that has led to Taranis.
Haraka
It's called BAES Ampersand and I believe it is based uopn the MT-03 autogyro. It certainly looks like a BCAR Section T compliant autogyro - so there's a better chance of it not crashing!
LJ
I don't know the full "ins and outs" of Project REPLICA, but I did see it. It is a life size mcok up and covered in very expensive RADAR Absorbent Material (RAM) which isn't cheap - so they must have been pretty serious. It was one of mamy solutions to replace GR4 - others of which included Tornado 2000 with a faceted nose, redesigned intakes but still the mahoosive fin! There was also the FOAS concept UCAV which spawned into the smaller technology demonstrators that has led to Taranis.
Haraka
It's called BAES Ampersand and I believe it is based uopn the MT-03 autogyro. It certainly looks like a BCAR Section T compliant autogyro - so there's a better chance of it not crashing!
LJ
