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[edit]DescriptionAltus II high altitude science aircraft descending toward U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii (EC99-45006-1).jpg |
English: Altus II descending from a flight over Kauai, Hawaii. The Altus II was flown as a performance and propulsion testbed for future high-altitude science platform aircraft under NASA’s Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) program at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. The rear-engined Altus II and its sister ship, the Altus I, were built by General Atomics/Aeronautical Systems, Inc., of San Diego, Calif. They are designed for high-altitude, long-duration scientific sampling missions, and are powered by turbocharged piston engines. The Altus I, built for the Naval Postgraduate School, reached over 43,500 feet with a single-stage turbocharger feeding its four-cylinder Rotax engine in 1997, while the Altus II, incorporating a two-stage turbocharger built by Thermo-Mechanical Systems, reached and sustained an altitudeof 55,000 feet for four hours in 1999. A pilot in a control station on the ground flies the craft by radio signals, using visual cues from a video camera in the nose of the Altus and information from the craft’s air data system. |
Date | Taken in May 1999 |
Source | https://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/Altus/HTML/EC99-45006-1.html |
Author | NASA/Sandia Labs/Dick Jones |
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