Hahahaha
Very cool. It's amazing what these kind of drones can do in flight.
My Dad was a badass pilot in the military and then trained pilots for Delta after he retired from the military. He's totally retired now,,, but he thinks he's still in the military lol. Recently, he got himself a drone with the 4 helicopter props... but the one he has is like a big military grade drone with GPS guidance, powerful cameras (still and video), and very bright led spot lights. I'm pretty sure he got it from some of his military connections,,, I don't think this is something that people can buy. He told my Mom that he just got it to help her with her business.... he takes aerial pictures of properties for her. I call bullcrap on that.
My Mom just told me that she's caught him flying his drone over the golf cart roads at night (there are golf cart roads connecting everything in the entire city that he lives in) ... just hovering silently... when an unsuspecting golf cart approaches... spotlights from the drone blast down on them. Hahaha. He turns the lights off,,, changes the position of the drone and then beams them again. People are thinking they are seeing UFOs.
I can't wait to see him in July when our family gets together at the beach. He's bringing the drone.
I wonder what cruise altitude it was at ? At that speed, it had to be pretty high up.Not these quadcopters. The Air Force crashed a stealth drone so they had to admit to what they had.
LOS ANGELES -- An unmanned hypersonic glider likely aborted its 13,000 mph flight over the Pacific Ocean last summer because unexpectedly large sections of its skin peeled off, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said Friday.
The Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2, launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., atop a rocket and released on Aug. 11, 2011, was part of research aimed at developing super-fast global strike capability for the Department of Defense.
The vehicle demonstrated stable aerodynamically controlled flight at speeds up to 20 times the speed of sound, or Mach 20, for three minutes before a series of upsets caused its autonomous flight safety system to bring it down in the ocean, DARPA said in a statement.
at the bottom of the Mesosphere. I wonder why they flew so low? No wonder the skin ripped off. But probably too high for turbine propulsion, so either rocket or RAM jet powered, or perhaps something we don't know about. If they we're running rocket, they could have flown higher. Would love to know more about this vehicle's engineering.
When studying this stuff in school we talked alot about the day that this would finally happen. It's so exciting to hear that these integrated propulsion systems are now live. Now I guess they just gotta figure out the materials to employ, 'cause under those speeds within the atmosphere everything heats up and expands so much that you really need far-out materials to maintain the vehicle's structure.
Yeah, that's why my eye brow went up when 15,000 mph was mentioned. What is it made of? The SR71 used to stretch 6 inches in flight and could not have a nose gun because it would shoot itself down. It also took a few states to turn around.
and they had to refuel immediately after takeoff -- because the skin seams were so pourous in order to accommodate inflight heat expansion -- as they would actually leak fuel at slow speed low atmospheric flight.
The good news is that politicians will go extinct
