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Program Manager: Mr. Don Woodbury
Overview
The Heliplane program will design, develop and flight test an air vehicle that combines the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) and low disk loading characteristics of a helicopter with the speed and efficiency characteristics of a fixed wing aircraft. The Heliplane demonstrator aircraft will be tailored to a Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) mission with a 400 mph cruise speed, a 1,000 lb payload, and an unrefueled range of 1,000 miles. The Heliplane program will conduct a combination of analysis and experiments to develop and demonstrate key enabling technologies. Once key enabling technologies have been demonstrated, a preliminary design of the Heliplane system will be completed, a test of the rotor system will be conducted to demonstrate that the rotor is stable in high-speed flight, detailed design will be completed, and a Heliplane demonstrator will be fabricated and flight tested.
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Last Updated: 02/19/08