VIDEO: Stratolaunch's Monster Jet Completes First Test-Drive Down Runway 세계 최대 비행기 '스트라토런치' 첫 시험 비행 착륙 성공
Stratolaunch's Monster Jet Completes First Test-Drive Down Runway
By Megan Gannon, Live Science Contributor | December 19, 2017
Stratolaunch's Monster Jet Completes First Test-Drive Down Runway
By Megan Gannon, Live Science Contributor | December 19, 2017
The Stratolaunch double-bodied jet underwent its first test down the runway recently at the Mojave Air and Space
Port in California Credit: Stratolaunch
세계 최대 비행기 '스트라토런치' 첫 시험 비행 착륙 성공
지난 9월 첫 엔진 시험을 성공적으로 마친 바 있는 세계 최대의 비행기
스트라토런치의 첫 시험 비행 착륙에 성공했다.
축구장 규모의 길이 117m, 6개의 플랫 앤 휘트니 터보팬 엔진을 장착한
스트로토런치는 249,476 kg라는 엄청난 페이로드를 이용해서 성층권에서
거대 로켓을 발사하는 것이 목적이다.
황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터
Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor, curator
Stratolaunch's rocket-launching mothership was driven down the runway for the first time this past weekend.
The double-bodied jet —which has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in the world —has been undergoing tests at Stratolaunch's facility at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. The latest phase in this process was testing the aircraft's steering and stopping capabilities.
Video footage of the taxi test showed the plane rolling along at a slow speed. Afterward, Stratolaunch officials said the vehicle's steering, braking, anti-skid and telemetry systems all operated as anticipated.
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"Our crew was able to demonstrate ground directional control with nose gear steering, and our brake systems were exercised successfully on the runway,"George Bugg, Stratolaunch's aircraft program manager, said in a statement. "Our first low speed taxi test is a very important step toward first flight. We are all proud and excited." [Supersonic! The 11 Fastest Military Airplanes]
The private spaceflight company Stratolaunch is the brainchild of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The carrier plane is designed to make a runway-style takeoff and then, at cruising altitude, deploy rockets that can launch small satellites into low-Earth orbit.
The monster jet was only rolled out from its scaffolding in May. This weekend's latest milestone comes three months after the company successfully tested the six engines on the colossal airplane for the first time. Stratolaunch officials have said they hope to have the aircraft in flight by the end of the decade, and the Mojave Air and Space Port will eventually be the company's center of operations.
The aircraft weighs 500,000 lbs. (227,000 kilograms), and it can carry another 550,000 lbs. (almost 250,000 kg) with up to three rockets under the conjoined wing at the center of the vehicle. Its wingspan is longer than a football field, measuring 386 feet (118 meters) across.
The aircraft was built by Scaled Composites, the Mojave-based aerospace company founded by spaceship builder Burt Rutan. Scaled Composites is also behind the design for White Knight Two, the mothership built to launch Virgin Galactic’s tourist-carrying space plane.
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The Stratolaunch double-bodied jet underwent its first test down the runway recently at the Mojave Air and Space
Port in California Credit: Stratolaunch
세계 최대 비행기 '스트라토런치' 첫 시험 비행 착륙 성공
지난 9월 첫 엔진 시험을 성공적으로 마친 바 있는 세계 최대의 비행기
스트라토런치의 첫 시험 비행 착륙에 성공했다.
축구장 규모의 길이 117m, 6개의 플랫 앤 휘트니 터보팬 엔진을 장착한
스트로토런치는 249,476 kg라는 엄청난 페이로드를 이용해서 성층권에서
거대 로켓을 발사하는 것이 목적이다.
황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터
Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor, curator
Stratolaunch's rocket-launching mothership was driven down the runway for the first time this past weekend.
The double-bodied jet —which has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in the world —has been undergoing tests at Stratolaunch's facility at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. The latest phase in this process was testing the aircraft's steering and stopping capabilities.
Video footage of the taxi test showed the plane rolling along at a slow speed. Afterward, Stratolaunch officials said the vehicle's steering, braking, anti-skid and telemetry systems all operated as anticipated.
Free Republic
edited by kcontents
"Our crew was able to demonstrate ground directional control with nose gear steering, and our brake systems were exercised successfully on the runway,"George Bugg, Stratolaunch's aircraft program manager, said in a statement. "Our first low speed taxi test is a very important step toward first flight. We are all proud and excited." [Supersonic! The 11 Fastest Military Airplanes]
The private spaceflight company Stratolaunch is the brainchild of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The carrier plane is designed to make a runway-style takeoff and then, at cruising altitude, deploy rockets that can launch small satellites into low-Earth orbit.
The monster jet was only rolled out from its scaffolding in May. This weekend's latest milestone comes three months after the company successfully tested the six engines on the colossal airplane for the first time. Stratolaunch officials have said they hope to have the aircraft in flight by the end of the decade, and the Mojave Air and Space Port will eventually be the company's center of operations.
The aircraft weighs 500,000 lbs. (227,000 kilograms), and it can carry another 550,000 lbs. (almost 250,000 kg) with up to three rockets under the conjoined wing at the center of the vehicle. Its wingspan is longer than a football field, measuring 386 feet (118 meters) across.
The aircraft was built by Scaled Composites, the Mojave-based aerospace company founded by spaceship builder Burt Rutan. Scaled Composites is also behind the design for White Knight Two, the mothership built to launch Virgin Galactic’s tourist-carrying space plane.
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