Project Mercury …. X15 …. SpaceShipOne … SpaceShipTwo … New Shepard Following the initial suborbital spaceflight programs in the 1960s all attention was on orbital and lunar flights. It wasn’t until the Ansari X Prize was announced in 1996 that attention returned to suborbital spaceflight. The prize was modeled after the Orteig Prize, won by …
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Ensured the longerons are level side to side and front to back. Placed plastic on the floor in preparation for glassing the bottom of the fuselage. Cut 4″ wide strips of UND cloth to install reinforcing layups for the landing gear hardpoints and the engine mount hardpoints as per figure 19.
Preparing the fuselage bottom for glassing …. The Dremel tool was used to remove foam around the edge of the NACA scoop in preparation for creating flox corners. The top edges of the NACA scoop were sanded. The edges of the F22, Firewall, and Landing Gear bulkheads were rounded to accommodate where the glass cloth …
Cozy Experimental Aircraft Update – February 10, 2019 Read More »
It was a great day yesterday with the three principal leaders of Beyond Blue getting together to set the direction for 2019 and beyond. We were able to better solidify our plans to progress the Blue Dart rocket test program which will be followed by the Blue Arrow suborbital spaceplane development program. As well, we …
A very cold Saturday afternoon flight over Peterborough Ontario. The engine and cockpit were pre-heated and enough snow and ice removed to get the plane out of the hangar. The runway 27 holding bay was completely iced over making it tricky to do the magneto checks at the normal power setting. Here is a short …
