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quote:Hypersonic Aircraft Design Showing in Seattle
Aero-News.net
NASA is reaching for the stratosphere with a new aircraft that can fly at five times the speed of sound, riding on top of its own shock wave, and perform the toughest maneuvers automatically thanks to state-of-the-art AI (artificial intelligence) technology.
The Space Agency is using the LoFLYTE aircraft to test an on-board "neural network" computer system that promises to dramatically improve flight safety. Processing a billion connections per second, the computer can learn as its flies and adjust to changing flight conditions faster than a human pilot. LoFLYTE features a high-performance shape that will allow it to fly at Mach 5 -- faster than any other plane with air-breathing engines. By comparison, the SR-71 Blackbird can "only" fly at a top speed of Mach 3.
LoFLYTE is called a "waverider" because it can ride atop shock waves that it creates as it flies above the speed of sound -- a capability other hypersonic aircraft lack.
NASA will team with Accurate Automation Corp. (developer of the neural network flight control system) to exhibit a 12-foot version of LoFLYTE at the Technology 2000 conference and exposition now through Thursday in Bellevue (WA). The 11th annual event is sponsored by NASA, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Boeing, and NASA Tech Briefs magazine.
FMI: http://www.T2Kexpo.com ; http://www.abpi.net/
quote:Hypersonic Aircraft Design Showing in Seattle
Aero-News.net
NASA is reaching for the stratosphere with a new aircraft that can fly at five times the speed of sound, riding on top of its own shock wave, and perform the toughest maneuvers automatically thanks to state-of-the-art AI (artificial intelligence) technology.
The Space Agency is using the LoFLYTE aircraft to test an on-board "neural network" computer system that promises to dramatically improve flight safety. Processing a billion connections per second, the computer can learn as its flies and adjust to changing flight conditions faster than a human pilot. LoFLYTE features a high-performance shape that will allow it to fly at Mach 5 -- faster than any other plane with air-breathing engines. By comparison, the SR-71 Blackbird can "only" fly at a top speed of Mach 3.
LoFLYTE is called a "waverider" because it can ride atop shock waves that it creates as it flies above the speed of sound -- a capability other hypersonic aircraft lack.
NASA will team with Accurate Automation Corp. (developer of the neural network flight control system) to exhibit a 12-foot version of LoFLYTE at the Technology 2000 conference and exposition now through Thursday in Bellevue (WA). The 11th annual event is sponsored by NASA, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Boeing, and NASA Tech Briefs magazine.
FMI: http://www.T2Kexpo.com ; http://www.abpi.net/