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Solar aircraft designed to stay aloft for a year makes maiden flight


https://newatlas.com/aircraft/phasa...vy1Er-fpI6os7tGz8YE4TF5orsHComeXl6lmpk3EgsZpw

A super-endurance unmanned solar-electric aircraft built for year-long flights has completed its maiden run. Built by BAE Systems subsidiary Prismatic, the Persistent High Altitude Solar Aircraft (PHASA-35) took to the air over the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Woomera Test Range in South Australia for its first fully-integrated flight test.
Backed by Britain's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), the PHASA-35 is a High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) vehicle designed to fill the gap between aircraft and satellites. According to BAE Systems, it went from design to first flight in 20 months with two full-size prototypes completed in 2019.

Cheaper than satellites to build and operate, the PHASA-35 is a persistent, stable aerial platform with military and civilian applications, including surveillance, communications, security, remote sensing, environmental science, forest fire detection, and maritime surveillance.


PHASA-35 infographic
BAE Systems
With a wingspan of 35 m (115 ft) and proprietary carbon-composite monocoque structure weighing 150 kg (331 lb), the PHASA-35 can spend up to a year in the air thanks to its gallium arsenide solar array and lithium-ion batteries running two brushless, direct-drive electric motors with bespoke high-altitude propellers. This allows it to run against prevailing winds as it operates at altitudes of up to 70,000 ft (21,000 m) and speeds of 50 to 78 knots (58 mph, 93 km/h to 90 mph, 145 km/h).

"This is an outstanding early result that demonstrates the pace that can be achieved when we bring the best of British capability together," says Ian Muldowney, Engineering Director at BAE Systems. "To go from design to flight in less than two years shows that we can rise to the challenge the UK Government has set industry to deliver a Future Combat Air System within the next decade."

More flight tests are slated for 2020, with initial operations to begin within 12 months.


Source: BAE Systems
 
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Solar aircraft designed to stay aloft for a year makes maiden flight


https://newatlas.com/aircraft/phasa...vy1Er-fpI6os7tGz8YE4TF5orsHComeXl6lmpk3EgsZpw


A super-endurance unmanned solar-electric aircraft built for year-long flights has completed its maiden run. Built by BAE Systems subsidiary Prismatic, the Persistent High Altitude Solar Aircraft (PHASA-35) took to the air over the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Woomera Test Range in South Australia for its first fully-integrated flight test.
Backed by Britain's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), the PHASA-35 is a High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) vehicle designed to fill the gap between aircraft and satellites. According to BAE Systems, it went from design to first flight in 20 months with two full-size prototypes completed in 2019.

Cheaper than satellites to build and operate, the PHASA-35 is a persistent, stable aerial platform with military and civilian applications, including surveillance, communications, security, remote sensing, environmental science, forest fire detection, and maritime surveillance.


PHASA-35 infographic
BAE Systems
With a wingspan of 35 m (115 ft) and proprietary carbon-composite monocoque structure weighing 150 kg (331 lb), the PHASA-35 can spend up to a year in the air thanks to its gallium arsenide solar array and lithium-ion batteries running two brushless, direct-drive electric motors with bespoke high-altitude propellers. This allows it to run against prevailing winds as it operates at altitudes of up to 70,000 ft (21,000 m) and speeds of 50 to 78 knots (58 mph, 93 km/h to 90 mph, 145 km/h).

"This is an outstanding early result that demonstrates the pace that can be achieved when we bring the best of British capability together," says Ian Muldowney, Engineering Director at BAE Systems. "To go from design to flight in less than two years shows that we can rise to the challenge the UK Government has set industry to deliver a Future Combat Air System within the next decade."

More flight tests are slated for 2020, with initial operations to begin within 12 months.


Source: BAE Systems


Pretty cool. Good to see it'll fly too high for dumbfucks to be able to shoot them down as well.
 
I just touched her neck to see if she has an Adams apple. Nope. Tater Thot 2020 is a go.


Mardi Gras.
MARDI GRAS.

OH BY THE WAY. The bitch was straight DRAGGED by a fucking semi for.. awhile. She was horrible in bed. And now she's saying she wants to suck my dick but I can't touch her neck when she does. Because.she might fucking die.
Lmao @ “Tater Thot 2020”
 

Y'all gotta admit. It's just so beautiful.

Also lolfuck. I just spilled hot sauce all over my sheets.
 
What difference does it make? You don't think it seems incredibly disingenuous to attack Obama or Biden for being willing to accept a lower growth rate for Social Security in exchange for crisis relief while waving the pompoms for a politician who literally called Social Security and Medicare forms of slavery?

So you know why I supported him.

And no I obviously don’t make anything about Ron Paul. You brought him up, not me. You always bring him up, I do not.
You supported a guy who literally killed kids and families and your argument is that the guy who was opposed to that had a flawed economic policy so he’s the bad guy, not the war criminal.
 
He wanted to move it to the state level, which would have been better in some states and worse in others.



Yeah, @Fawlty, the true progressive option in 2012 was the racist who thought that stopping abortion was the most important issue in America and wanted to eliminate Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid (all forms of slavery for some reason) and massively cut taxes for rich people.

Relative to murdering children and families, yes, the guy who thought killing babies and had a bad economic policy was the best option for the country at the time.
 
The rematch that is like 20 years too late
It’s the rematch to the rematch which Shogun also won. I hope Shogun gets the flu and has to drop out only to recover the day after the card.
 
When you make that little every little bit aucks
While that's certainly true, it doesn't suck as much as paying at least double that, if not more. But that's the price of "free" health care so it's whatever.
 
And @Trotsky here's today's forecast:
Current temp -19. Sunny. Wind northwest 20 km/h becoming light this morning. High minus 11. Wind chill minus 30 this morning and minus 16 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite.

So yeah, fuck winter and anything that even looks like winter.
 
I saw in the news that Trump dedicated some time at his latest rally to complain about a Korean movie winning Best Picture. He then bemoaned the fact that we no longer have "Gone with the wind."
 
And @Trotsky here's today's forecast:
Current temp -19. Sunny. Wind northwest 20 km/h becoming light this morning. High minus 11. Wind chill minus 30 this morning and minus 16 this afternoon. Risk of frostbite.

So yeah, fuck winter and anything that even looks like winter.

Nah, winter's dope.
 
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