Air Force Flight Test Center

Mission Update 2011

From time-to-time, Aerotech News and Review takes a close-up look at aerospace and defense in the Antelope Valley.

The result — Mission Update 2011. In this special issue, we take a look at current programs, and what the future

might hold for the various aerospace and defense organizations and companies that call the Antelope Valley home.





Air Force Flight Test Center

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rom the development of the coun- all testing various airframes and equipment.

try’s first jet aircraft to the Air Force’s January saw Boeing testing new commu-

newest fighter, the F-22 Raptor, the nication technology on a B-52H bomber.

Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards has The Combat Network Communications

played a role in the development of virtually Technology upgrade allows B-52H crews

every aircraft to enter the Air Force inven- to receive and send real-time digital infor-

tory since World War II. mation during their missions.

And while most people are familiar with the The more than three-hour flight around

historical firsts associated with the base, test the Edwards area included an initial system

and evaluation is the base’s ongoing mission. build-up test, interphone test and commu-

The primary purpose of test and evaluation nication test.

is to influence the design of weapons systems The test process included power-on of each

to ensure they meet operational war fighting, system in flight to determine that there were AeroVironment photograph

combat support and training requirements. no adverse effects on flight-essential systems. AeroVironment’s Global Observer unmanned aircraft system, has successfully completed ground tests at

To support testing, AFFTC operates the Ed- “Completion of the first test flight brings Edwards Air Force Base and is proceeding toward flight testing. Developed to loiter over any spot on the

wards Flight Test Range, which is comprised us one step closer to giving command cen- globe at an altitude of between 55,000 and 65,000 feet, Global Observer will watch, listen and relay com-

of 20,000 square miles of airspace, including ters and troops on the ground the ability munications signals flexibly, affordably and without interruption.

three supersonic corridors and four aircraft to communicate with the B-52 through the

spin areas. Besides flight test capabilities, Ed- military’s digital information network,” said protein foam solution, which slows the water vehicle to Mach 5. The previous longest sc-

wards has an array of ground test facilities. Jim Kroening, Boeing B-52 Development run-off and helps keep the runway slippery. ramjet burn in a flight test was 12 seconds

The Avionics and Test and Integration Programs manager. “Augmenting current The water and foam solution are applied to in a NASA X-43.

Complex, which includes the massive Bene- voice-based communication gives B-52 the runway using a unique spray bar specifi- Even before sifting through volumes of

field Anechoic Facility, allows for complete crews greater situational awareness and sig- cally designed by engineers in the squadron. telemetry data transmitted by the X-51, Air

testing of a fully integrated avionics suite in nificantly enhanced mission capabilities.” After the runway is wetted down, a truck Force officials called the test, the first of four

a simulated flight environment, including Global Hawk UAVs, in various configura- equipped with a runway-friction-measuring- planned, an unqualified success. The flight is

electronic threats and computer software tions, were a constant throughout the year. system drives through the water to measure considered the first use of a practical hydro-

checkout. In March, the 452nd Flight Test Squad- the runway condition reading. The RCR carbon-fueled scramjet in flight.

The base saw several organization changes ron began wet runway testing for the new needs to be between 13 and 17 indicating “We are ecstatic to have accomplished

over the course of the past year, but these RQ-4 block 20 Global Hawk. that the runway is indeed wet and provides the most significant of our test points on

only enhanced the overall mission. The Global Hawk recently taxied down the enough friction. the X-51A’s very first hypersonic mission,”

In June, several Edwards groups and South Base-8,000 foot runway at 70 knots, And in November, an RQ-4 Global Hawk said Charlie Brink, X-51A program manag-

squadrons were restructured to align the coming smartly to a stop and thus complet- completed a 32-hour flight test using an al- er with the Air Force Research Laboratory

organizations with the new Air Force man- ing the final speed requirement in the test- ternative fuel mixture. at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

ning and standardization guidelines. ing phase. The wet runway test requires the The 412th Test Wing’s Global Vigilance “We equate this leap in engine technology

And throughout the year, the Air Force Global Hawk to demonstrate taxiing and Combined Test Force’s Block 20 Global as equivalent to the post-World War II jump

Flight Test Center, 412th Test Wing and stopping from 6, 12, 30, 50 and 70 knots. Hawk took off at 4:30 p.m., Nov. 22, and be- from propeller-driven aircraft to jet engines.”

95th Air Base Wing all gained new com- The RQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk has a came the first remotely piloted aircraft to fly The X-51 departed about 10 a.m. from

manders — Brig. Gen. Robert C. Nolan II, new electrical braking system with a differen- using the Fischer-Tropsch Synthetic Paraffinic Edwards Air Force Base, carried aloft un-

Col. Dawn M. Dunlop, and Col. Gregory E. tial brake capability and anti-skid functions, Kerosene fuel and regular JP-8 jet fuel blend. der the left wing of an Air Force Flight Test

Schwab respectively. making it the only remotely piloted aircraft The Fischer-Tropsch process is a set of Center B-52H Stratofortress. Then, flying at

Additionally, the Ridley Mission Control with this brake design. Its predecessor, the chemical reactions that converts carbon- 50,000 feet over the Point Mugu Naval Air

Center marked its 30th anniversary in June. RQ-4 Block 10 Global Hawk, utilizes a hy- based materials into liquid hydrocarbons. Warfare Center Sea Range, the Waverider was

The center serves as the centerpiece for draulic brake system. The different braking Typically utilizing coal, natural gas or bio- released. Four seconds later an Army Tactical

tracking and recording almost all flight test system on this significantly larger Global mass as a feedstock, the resulting synthetic Missile solid rocket booster accelerated the

operations. Ridley can even record telemetry Hawk version makes these tests crucial. liquid is utilized as a petroleum substitute. X-51 to about Mach 4.8 before it and a con-

data from as far away as White Sands, N.M. Civil Engineers come out in the early Perhaps one of the highlights of the year necting interstage were jettisoned. The launch

The skies above Edwards and the Antelope morning darkness to sweep the runway for was the May flight of the X-51A Waverider. and separation were normal, Mr. Brink said.

Valley saw the B-52, Global Hawk, F-35, C- foreign object debris before the test starts. The more than 200-second burn by the Then the X-51’s SJY61 engine ignited,

17s, B-1s, AeroVironment’s Global Observer The runway is then watered down by con- X-51’s Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne-built

UAV, the X-51 Waverider, and the C-130 tractors followed by firefighters with a diluted air breathing scramjet engine accelerated the See AFFTC, Page 2





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AFFTC, from 1 “We are moving ahead very well with the

system test activities,” said Eric Vanderslice,

initially on a mix of ethylene, similar to light- FIDL program manager. “We were able to

er fluid, and JP-7 jet fuel then exclusively on send and receive messages between the Link

JP-7, the same fuel that once powered the 16 on the B-1 and the Ridley test facility at

SR-71 Blackbird before its retirement. The Edwards.”

flight reached an altitude of about 70,000 This phase of ground testing will validate

feet and a peak speed of Mach 5. the new FIDL software upgrades and Link

Another major highlight would be the first 16 capabilities. The phase two testing start-

flight of the AeroVironment-built Global ed this month when the FIDL systems had

Observer Aircraft 1001 took off from run- power applied. Phase one testing, which was

way 04L and climbed to an altitude of 4,000 completed in October 2009, tested the new

feet where it performed a series of maneuvers FIDL hardware in ground and flight tests.

before landing successfully one hour later. Again in April, after five years of develop-

Boeing photograph

AeroVironment’s chief test pilot, Andy ment and ground testing, the B-1B Lancer

Thurling, a retired Air Force lieutenant colo- Boeing successfully completed its first test flight at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Jan. 17. The test process in- bomber radar replacement program suc-

nel and former flight test pilot, operated the cluded a power-on of each system in flight to determine there were no adverse effects on flight-essential systems. cessfully completed its first test flight April

aircraft remotely from the portable Launch 20, launching from Edwards and landing

and Recovery Element. Thurling successfully forms,” said Tim Conver, AV’s chairman and ery 5 to 7 days, making this the first solution as planned at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.

guided the aircraft through a predetermined chief executive officer. “In the 20th century to provide customers with practical, seamless The Radar Reliability and Maintainability

flight path as the first step in a flight test cam- conventional airplanes opened the lower at- coverage, wherever and whenever required. Improvement Program upgrade is required

paign that will gradually demonstrate increas- mosphere to practical use, and satellites did F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter to avoid fleet grounding because of radar

ing flight endurance and operating altitude. the same for space. I believe that Global Ob- testing continued apace — with the base ac- component obsolescence.

The hybrid-electric aircraft flew for the server soon will establish the stratosphere as cepting delivery of two aircraft in May, and “The current B-1 APQ-164 radar has

first time under battery power and will ulti- a valuable and practical area of operation.” a third aircraft Dec. 11. multiple parts that are becoming obsolete

mately carry a liquid hydrogen-fueled pro- Each aircraft in a Global Observer system The F-35s will undergo ground- and flight- and unsupportable,” said Bill Wu, RMIP

pulsion system to power it through high alti- is designed to fly at an altitude of between test activities to test propulsion, aerial refuel- program manager. “We are replacing them

tude, long endurance joint operational utility 55,000 and 65,000 feet for 5 to 7 days. In ing, logistical support, weapons integration with the modern components so our cus-

assessment planned for later in 2010. When addition to flying above weather and above and flight-envelope expansion at Edwards. tomer can repair and operate the radar sys-

flying in its battery-powered test configura- other conventional aircraft, operation in this B-1B testing also continued at Edwards. tem, which is critical to B-1 operations.”

tion or in its liquid hydrogen-fueled opera- altitude regime permits communications and In April, a B-1 Lancer bomber upgraded In addition to the hardware effort, the

tional configuration the air vehicle’s propul- sensor payloads on the aircraft to service an with Boeing’s Fully Integrated Data Link program upgraded most of the radar soft-

sion system produces no carbon emissions. area on the surface of the earth up to 600 accomplished its first power-on since going ware from a 1970s era Jovial to the modern

“This flight marks the beginning of a new miles in diameter, equivalent to more than through routine depot maintenance earlier supportable C++ computer language.

phase in the Global Observer technology 280,000 square miles of coverage. Equipped this year. It also successfully transmitted and The RMIP modification was installed on

demonstration program, and it represents a with payloads that are readily available today, received data out of the Link 16 antennas for the Test aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base

significant leap forward in the evolution of two Global Observer aircraft would alternate the first time. The milestones were reached

airborne communications and sensor plat- coverage over any location on the globe ev- last week at Edwards. See AFFTC, Page 3







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March 11, 2011

Test center commander talks about Edwards, Flight Test Center

by Diane Betzler “We’re in this together, we need your support as is going to be a single-point success. an engine, an air-breathing engine with no moving

staff writer we go forward and conduct our mission,” he said. “This airplane is going to replace all the tactical parts,” he said.

He said base officials are concerned about pre- aviation in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. He said the very critical scramjet technology is a

Brig. Gen. Robert C. Nolan II, commander of the serving what the base already has and said it’s There are three versions, one for each service, this is partnership between academia, industry and the gov-

Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force important that the base doesn’t do anything that an incredibly critical program for the United States ernment, and said testers are getting ready to fly three

Base, Calif., recently spoke to the Antelope Valley would have an adverse impact on the community and we need it to be a success,” he said. of the scramjet vehicles this spring. He said the sc-

Board of Trade’s 39th Annual Business Outlook and at the same time it’s important that the com- The general said currently there are four jets on ramjet technology is advancing development to 2050.

Conference. munity doesn’t bring in any kind of business that the ramp and said although the aircraft is not with- “Maybe this will be a propulsion source that gets

Nolan talked about the importance of flight test- might have an adverse impact on the flight testing out problems, it is flying pretty well. weapons around the globe faster and gets them to

ing, how the base supports the surrounding commu- that goes on at Edwards. “That’s what developmental flight test is all about where they need to go faster. We’re talking about

nities and how important it is that the communities He said the best way to prevent that kind of con- — we discover the problems, we fix them so the an airplane that travels around at 4,000 miles per

continue to support the flight test center. flict is for base officials and community leaders to airplane can go into full rate production and we hour with an air-breathing engine with no moving

He started out by acknowledging American communicate and be aware of each other’s missions. can take it into combat a workable, viable system,” parts,” he said.

troops and reminded everyone that they are out “We have to work together. If I have a new mission he said, adding that he expects to have nine jets All the programs the general talked about, the

in the world working around the clock protecting the local community needs to be aware to deter- in development test by the end of the year and by X-51, the Joint Strike Fighter and the Airborne Laser

America’s freedom. mine the impact that mission might have on the 2012 another 20 aircraft are expected on the ramp are done through a partnership with industry, gov-

He said there are 450,000 soldiers, sailors, air- community,” he said. at the flight test center. ernment and in some cases with academia.

men, Marines and coastguardsmen serving over- He said the bottom line is that the community Calling the JSF a rainbow program, Nolan ex- “I could not do my mission without the partner-

seas on America’s behalf. and Edwards need to understand what each are plained that six of those 20 aircraft belong to the Air ship from these folks, I’m executing programs in

“Some of those folks, 450,000 strong, serve in doing. Force, they are the conventional takeoff and landing concert with them, I’m training my personnel in con-

nice places, but 150,000 of them are serving in He then talked about the economic impact Ed- variant called CTOL. Six carrier variant called CVs cert with them and I am providing capabilities to war

Afghanistan, Iraq, the Port of Africa and the Philip- wards has on the community and said the base paid are Navy jets, six short takeoff/vertical landing jets fighters across the globe because we are working

pines on our behalf,” he said, then asked Americans out $626 million in payroll expenditures last year. called STOVLs are the Marine Corps versions and together,” the general said.

to keep the troops in their thoughts and prayers. “Of course that payroll generates a lot of eco- two STOVLs belong to the United Kingdom. Nolan said as they move and change and work

He credited Gen. Henry Harley “Hap” Arnold, the nomic activity inside the Antelope Valley,” he said. “The operational test and evaluation of this aircraft toward 2050, one of the most important things the

only five-star general in America’s history to attain He said there are some 11,000 employees at will occur at Edwards Air Force Base,” Nolan said. community can do is discuss the flight test center’s

five-star rank in both the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Edwards, 2,000 of them are military, the rest are He said the JSF platform, as it moves forward is plans so that the community can stay compatible

Force, for bringing military aviation to the Antelope contractors and dedicated military civilians, all sup- the future of tactical aviation for the Department of with the base’s plans so that the very critical mis-

Valley and for having the insight to recognize what porting the flight test center’s mission. Defense and for many of America’s allies. sion the Department of Defense is doing at Edwards

is now Edwards Air Force Base, as the perfect site “And so there is $1.5 billion or so activity per year The general touched a bit on the Airborne Laser is not encroached upon.

for flight testing. occurring at Edwards that’s impacting the business Program and said it’s the most advanced program “We need to preserve those things that Hap

Nolan said all the reasons Arnold chose Edwards activities of the Antelope Valley,” he said. and the riskiest that is currently on the ramp at Arnold found here in 1933. We need to preserve

as the Air Force Flight Test Center still exist today. Nolan said there is a lot of aviation firsts continu- Edwards. the very crucial restricted air space that overlies

Good flying weather, relative remoteness, Rogers ing at Edwards and said there’s nothing more exciting “We’ve taken a chemical laser that is not too Edwards Air Force Base, Fort Irwin and China Lake.”

and Rosamond dry lakebeds and the space needed than aviation history and the potential of aviation. large and produces one megawatt of power and a He said one-sixth of the airspace in the state of

for the Air Force to conduct the activities it needs to “There are lots of incredible things still going on in year ago, almost to the day, we shot down a missile California is dedicated to their mission. “We can not

conduct on behalf of the United States. this community in behalf of United States citizens,” with this airplane.” do our mission without that dedicated airspace,” he

He said the thing the base has today that Hap he said. He said over the next several months, testers are said. The general said that airspace is their center

didn’t have back in 1933 is community support. The The general said his top priority at Edwards right going to continue to improve the laser technology of their gravity.

general thanked the communities for their support now is the Joint Strike Fighter program and said and then decide how the U.S. is going to use it. Nolan II took over as commander of the Air Force

and said it is vital to the flight test center’s success there are currently four JSFs at Edwards. The general then talked briefly about the X-51 Flight Test Center in October of last year and said it’s

that the support continues. He said the JSF is a very interesting program and program also being tested at Edwards. “We’re testing been an incredible first couple of months for him.



AFFTC, from 2 of a C-17A T-1 at 25,000 feet over the U.S. Army Yuma Prov- “This is a big step forward in achieving the Air Force’s en-

ing Ground in Arizona. The JDTV is used to test the para- ergy goal of increasing the available supply of fuel by acquir-

by Boeing and Air Force workers. Boeing completed the chutes for NASA’s Ares I launch vehicle’s solid rocket booster. ing half of the Air Force’s domestic jet fuel requirement from

installation and checkout ground testing as well as the elec- NASA, in conjunction with Alliant Techsystems and the domestically derived, environmentally friendly alternatives

tromagnetic interference and compatibility aircraft testing. United Space Alliance, is providing a decelerator recovery sources by 2016.”

Both activities were approved by the Air Force April 19 in system for the new five-motor segment solid rocket booster. And in September, The 418th Flight Test Squadron con-

support of the first flight. This recoverable SRB is used in support of the Ares I space ducted flight tests to evaluate modifications made to the

And in June, Boeing announced the start of flight tests for launch vehicle and is heavier than the current recoverable C-17 Globemaster III formation flight system.

a B-1 Lancer bomber upgraded with new digital avionics for space shuttle SRB. The increase in weight requires a larger set The flight test required multiple C-17s to fly in formation

the aft cockpit, including a line-of-sight Link 16 data link. of parachutes for deceleration and recovery. Testing must be to test and validate how the FFS performs.

The B-1 Fully Integrated Data Link made its first flight test accomplished in order to validate the design of a new drogue The FFS enables the pilot to monitor and fly the aircraft in

June 4 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. and new main parachutes for the Ares I launch vehicle. formation with other C-17s at the same altitude and distance

The four-hour flight was conducted by the U.S. Air Force “The test is designed to collect data and to see how the in any weather condition.

around the local Edwards test ranges. The crew successfully parachutes react to different weights,” said Ellis Hines, The C-17 has a basic mission requirement to be able to

tested the Link 16 data link by sending and receiving text 418th FLTS, C-17 Ares project manager. “Once the entire fly large-scale formations, both in the clear and through the

messages and receiving virtual mission assignment data such testing is completed, eventually these parachutes will be at- clouds. The purpose is to be able to deliver a sizeable force

as target coordinates for a weapon. tached to the Ares I boosters.” of both personnel and their equipment into a hostile envi-

Link 16 adds line-of-sight capability to the B-1’s existing In August, the Air Force’s ongoing alternative fuels cer- ronment with speed and accuracy.

beyond line-of-sight Joint Range Extension Applications tification efforts reached a new milestone when a C-17 The lead pilot is responsible for sending information

Protocol data link, and integrates the JREAP data onto new, Globemaster III from here flew on all engines using jet fuel electronically through the system to the other C-17s so the

full-color displays with intuitive symbols and moving maps. blended with a combination of traditional petroleum-based entire formation is flying at the proper speed and altitude.

“Link 16 will allow the B-1 to be an active participant in fuel, or JP-8, biofuel derived in part from animal fat, and This seven-ship flight test is a build-up of previous tests.

a network that is commonly used by fighter, reconnaissance synthetic fuel derived from coal. Initially, the formation flight system was tested at Edwards

and command-and-control aircraft,” said Mark Angelo, B-1 The 418th Flight Test Squadron conducted the flight tests in the summer of 2008. Later it was tested at Pope Air Force

program manager for Boeing. “With Link 16, target coordi- Aug. 23 to 27. The flight was a first for any Department of Base, N.C., in four-ship formation. Last year at Edwards, the

nates can be sent directly to the weapon system from ground Defense aircraft where a 50 percent mix of traditional pe- 418th FLTS conducted flight tests using a six-ship formation.

troops or forward operating bases, instead of the current troleum-based JP-8 was blended with 25 percent renewable In addition to an Edwards’ C-17, Air Mobility Command

method, where crew members type the coordinates in by biofuel and 25 percent fuel derived from the Fischer-Tropsch provided six C-17s for this week’s tests; three from Mc-

hand after hearing them over the radio.” process, essentially liquefied coal or natural gas. It was also Chord AFB, Wash., and three from Charleston AFB, S.C.

Airlifters were a common sight as well during the year. the first time an aircraft from Edwards had used fuel derived So, whether testing upgrades and modifications to aircraft

April 14, 418th Flight Test Squadron set a record for the from beef tallow, essentially waste animal fat. currently in the inventory, or testing new and exciting air-

heaviest single payload ever extracted out of a C-17 during “The C-17 fleet is the biggest Air Force consumer of jet craft, the mission of Edwards continues.

flight. fuel annually,” said Lt. Gen. Mark Shackelford, Military Editor’s note: Kenji Thuloweit, Diane Betzler, Stephen Rob-

A 77,000-pound jumbo drop test vehicle was extracted out Deputy, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition). inson and Jennifer Hogan contributed to this story.



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Air Force Research Laboratory — Propulsion Directorate

The AFRL Propulsion Directorate is headquartered at for the AFRL. In January, cadets from the United States Air Force Acad-

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and has an addi- In order for the Air Force to develop more powerful and emy and members of the Air Force Research Laboratory

tional research facility at Edwards AFB, Calif. efficient rocket fuel for future space vehicles and rockets, it at Edwards conducted operational testing on the satellite

The Propulsion Directorate develops air and space vehi- will have to do it primarily alone for the time being. dubbed FalconSAT-5.

cle propulsion and power technologies. Focus areas include Because of costs and funding cuts, civilian solid rocket According to a U.S. Air Force Academy Department of

turbine and rocket engines, advanced propulsion systems, companies are doing very little, if any, development of new Astronautics press release, the primary mission of the Fal-

and the associated fuels and propellants for all propulsion and improved solid rocket fuels. conSAT-5 is to perform space weather measurements with

systems. “Although we used a standard propellant that has been on-board sensors in collaboration with remote ground sites.

The directorate is also responsible for most forms of power formulated before, this first test helps us to develop a base- The FalconSAT-5 mission spacecraft is being integrated and

technology making it one of the nation’s leaders in its field. line so we can make our own propellant formulations and flown by the Department of Defense Space Test Program

Programs address both future systems and the need to keep test them out and push farther in the solid rocket world and is supported by AFRL.

current systems competitive, safe, affordable and effective. because the industry is no longer doing this,” said Antypas. “We are doing full operational testing of the satellite,

The directorate has contributed technology to more than “If we’re going to build a new space-lift motor for the Air so we’re testing out all of the sub-systems, including the

130 military and commercial systems. Force, we’re going to need the capability to push the limits thruster, which is the AFRL provided payload,” said Brian

The Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards returned of propellant testing and manufacturing — beyond what the Beal, an AFRL program manager.

to its core roots with its latest rocket test June 17. civilian world can do.” The testing occurred in AFRL’s recently upgraded Space

The AFRL has tested rockets of all sizes and fuels of all Specifically, the Air Force is always looking for rocket Propellants Environmental Facility, or SPEF, which is a

make-ups for years. What makes this test unique is that all propellants that can provide better thrust, burn longer and 30-foot-diameter, spherical vacuum chamber. The large

components of the test were developed at the laboratory by perform more efficiently. physical size of the chamber and high vacuum pumping

AFRL employees. “This new capability not only serves to train the next gen- speed enabled FalconSat-5 to be tested in conditions that

The research lab conducted a 15-pound BATES test. eration of Air Force civilian and military rocket scientists closely mimic the space environment.

BATES stands for Ballistic Test and Evaluation System, but also allows the laboratory to serve as an independent Though the FalconSAT-5 mission is sponsored by AFRL,

which is a small scale apparatus to test rocket propellant evaluation source of contractor proposed propellants and it is not the first instance of U.S. Air Force Academy and

and designs in a standardized rocket motor casing. missile motor performance,” said Michael Huggins, AFRL AFRL cooperation.

“What’s special about this test is that it was entirely in- Space and Missile Propulsion Division chief. “AFRL has a long history of working with the Air Force

house,” said 1st. Lt Rob Antypas, AFRL program manager The AFRL has dedicated resources and is conducting ad- Academy,” said Daron Bromaghim, an AFRL program man-

and developmental engineer. “The propellant was made ministrative measures to bring back the capability to develop ager. “We send them resources and get some cadets involved

here; the rocket motor and nozzle were designed and fabri- its own propellants from scratch. in some of the programs that we have, so this [testing proj-

cated here and then we put it on the test stand.” Antypas said this first test is considered an overall success. ect] is just a natural outgrowth of that long history.”

Antypas said this was the first time in a long time the He noted the three-second test provided an extraordinary The history of collaboration is based on the mutual benefit

AFRL designed its own in-house rocket motor in order to amount of data due to new high speed digital video cameras for both organizations as well as the benefit to the Air Force.

conduct a test. Since then, rocket motor development was used for recording. And in September, AFRL Detachment 7 began a new

contracted. Workers on the project hope to conduct a 70-pound phase of rocket testing with the delivery of an Upper Stage

This type of research, development and testing for new BATES test after a few more preliminary 15-pound propel-

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AFRL, from 4 Force Space Command,” said Phillips.

The delivery of the USET turbo pump

Engine Technology program turbo pump. represents a milestone in the program.

The pump was delivered to the AFRL’s up- “I’ve been working on the USET program

graded 2A rocket test stand where it will un- since 2004 when it started out as a paper

dergo a series of tests using liquid hydrogen. notion,” said Sutton. “Since it’s a unique

The turbo pump essentially drives a liquid one-of-its-kind hardware, the design and

rocket engine. Once installed on a rocket fabrication has taken years. This test is the

engine, the pump pulls the propellants down culmination of and verification that all the

from the storage tanks so they can react and work we have done over those years is work-

produce thrust, propelling the upper stage ing exactly the way we have planned.”

of a rocket into space after the lower stage The Air Force operates the Evolved Ex-

booster runs out and drops off. pendable Launch Vehicle system, which is

“It looks pretty small but it is about 4,000 a family of launch vehicles that sends all

horsepower,” said Dr. Shawn Phillips, AFRL Department of Defense satellites into space.

Space and Missile Propulsion Division depu- The USET program is providing technology

ty chief. “This is a key component and prob- to eventually upgrade and improve the upper

ably one of the most technically challenging stage portion of the EELV system.

components within a liquid rocket engine. The USET program’s specific goal is to

This turbo pump is a typical one that you Air Force photograph develop and test-validate a new set of liq-

would see on an upper stage engine that The Air Force Research Laboratory conducted a 15-pound BATES test. BATES stands for Ballistic Test and uid rocket engine design software tools.

would launch us into space.” Evaluation System, which is a small scale apparatus to test rocket propellant and designs in a standardized The USET design tools are a revolutionary

The testing of the USET turbo pump rep- rocket motor casing. AFRL is returning to its roots by developing and testing its own rocket propellant. change in the way that rockets are devel-

resents a paradigm shift in the way rocket oped. The USET tools can be applied to not

testing will be conducted. In the past, AFRL With present technology, smaller compo- design methods,” said Alan Sutton, AFRL only upper stages, but boosters as well.

would sometimes test completely built rocket nents of rocket engines can be tested with USET program manager. “The original USET is being funded and directed by the

engines and components and hope the data the help of computer design software and are upper stage engines operating today were Integrated High Payoff Rocket Propulsion

collected would be sufficient. Sometimes the heavily instrumented to collect data more designed in the 50s and 60s with drawings Technology initiative. The goal of IHPRPT,

engines would explode during testing. efficiently. and slide rules, so we are taking advantage of a multi-agency national rocket propulsion

“What we’re doing is taking the ‘build For testing, the turbo pump sits in a “test computer designs and manufacturing in order technology planning program, is to double

them and bust them’ days of rocket testing skid” container and will be connected to to create a new modern upper stage engine.” U.S. rocket propulsion capability. USET and

and move it into heavy integration and mod- more than 135 instruments to collect data. Phillips said the AFRL’s product is data. other IHPRPT programs have been estab-

eling simulation,” Phillips said. “With this Liquid hydrogen will be fed through the “What we’re trying to do is understand lished to develop the technology for existing

pump, we would see anywhere from 700 to pump to see how it performs once attached everything we can about the turbo pump and future systems to reduce launch costs

3,000 tests done on a rocket engine and now to the test stand equipment. and liquid rocket engines so we can design while increasing payload to orbit and increas-

we are looking at an order of 20 to 50 tests “The purpose of the USET program is to better ones in the future and also hand that ing reliability of rocket propulsion systems.

on a rocket engine before we move into an modernize upper stage engine components technology information off to someone like Editor’s note: Kenji Thuloweit contributed

acquisition program.” with modern manufacturing techniques and the Space and Missile System Center and Air to this report.









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March 11, 2011 Aerotech News and Review 55

Dryden Flight Research Center

by Raphael Jaffe generations to carry us forward. The X-48B shows how we can

staff writer protect the environment by carrying out the research now.”



The Dryden Flight Research Center is NASA’s premier Flight Opportunities Program

installation for atmospheric flight research. The Flight Opportunities Program seeks commercial flight

Its charter includes: to research, develop, verify and trans- and payload integration services for NASA-provided technol-

fer advanced aeronautics; support space and related tech- ogy payloads on sub-orbital reusable space launch vehicles.

nologies; and conduct atmospheric Earth and space sci- It is managed by Dryden. There are two projects involved:

ence flight operations. The center is named in honor of Dr. Facilitated Access to the Space Environment for Technology;

Hugh L. Dryden, probably the most productive of the early and the Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research.

aerodynamicists. Dryden served as director of the National FAST focuses on testing technologies on parabolic aircraft

Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NASA’s predecessor flights that can simulate microgravity and the reduced gravity

organization, and later for many years as deputy administra- environments of the Moon or Mars by providing up to 25

tor of NASA. It’s likely that he influenced President Kennedy seconds of microgravity for discovery and testing. FAST is

to start the Apollo program. administered by the Johnson Space Center.

Dryden’s history dates back to late 1946, when 13 en- CRuSR is intended to foster the development of the

NASA photograph

gineers and technicians from the NACA’s Langley Memo- commercial reusable suborbital transportation industry by

rial Aeronautical Laboratory came to Muroc Army Air Base competitively securing commercial suborbital flight services The DC-8 airborne science laboratory flies low over San Joaquin Valley

(now Edwards AFB) to prepare for the first supersonic for experiment payloads that can provide access to 3 to 4 farm fields while specialized instruments collect air samples during the

research flights by the X-1 rocket plane in a joint NACA, minutes of microgravity for discovery and testing, along with 2010 Student Airborne Research Program flights.

Army Air Forces and Bell Aircraft research program. NASA routine recovery of payloads. CRuSR is operated by Ames

Dryden is a tenant organization at Edwards and is located Research Center. made with a huge telescope mounted in an aircraft flying at

adjacent to Rogers Dry Lake, which at 44 square miles is There recently was a Dryden Industry Day meeting for 800 km per hour,” pointed out Thomas Keilig, from DSI,

the largest dry lakebed in the world. The center flies a va- potential providers of sub-orbital reusable launch vehicle and SOFIA Telescope Assembly and SI Integration Manager,

riety of specialized research and support aircraft within a payload integration services. Representatives of more than responsible for testing the telescope.

20,700-square mile restricted airspace test range. 20 aerospace firms both large and small met with officials of “The crowning accomplishment of the night came when

The center is associated with many important technologi- the Flight Opportunities Program. scientists on board SOFIA recorded images of Jupiter at

cal milestones in aviation and space access: supersonic and wavelengths unobservable by either ground-based obser-

hypersonic flight, digital fly-by-wire control systems, super- Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy vatories or current space telescopes,” said USRA SOFIA

critical and forward-swept wings, and the space shuttles. SOFIA is now operational for science missions. Dryden’s senior science advisor Eric Becklin. “The composite image

NASA Dryden was also where the Apollo program’s Lunar Robert Meyer is the Program Manager. from SOFIA shows heat, trapped since the formation of the

Landing Research Vehicle, the famed X-15 rocket plane, and It is a world class airborne telescope to study infrared signals planet, pouring out of Jupiter’s interior through holes in its

the wingless lifting bodies were tested during the 1960s and of the universe. By flying above the water-containing atmo- clouds.” Galaxy M82 was also imaged.

70s. Dryden continues to conduct research and provide sup- sphere, which blocks ground based observations, it is obtaining A mid-infrared mosaic image from SOFIA offers a new

port for NASA’s efforts in aeronautics technologies, human new data. The observatory features a German-built 2.5-meter view of processes of star formation in and around the nebula

spaceflight, space exploration and Earth and space science. diameter infrared telescope mounted in a highly-modified Boe- Messier 42 in the constellation Orion. The data were ac-

Dryden is among the smallest of NASA’s 10 field centers. ing 747SP aircraft. SOFIA is a joint program. The Principal quired using the FORCAST camera (Principal Investigator

The funding request for fiscal year 2012 is $283.8 million, Investigators fly with their sophisticated instrumentation, and Terry Herter, Cornell University) during SOFIA’s Short Sci-

which is down from the $294.2 million that shows for fiscal can make many of their observations in real time. They can ence 1 observing program in December 2010.

2011. NASA’s budget authorization request for fiscal 2012 is direct the pointing coordinates to reflect needed changes. The German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Fre-

for the same amount as for fiscal 2010, $18.7 billion. But fis- The program has systematically progressed since SOFIA’s quencies, or GREAT, instrument was successfully mounted

cal 2011 doesn’t end until Sept. 30, and it is unclear what the “first light” observations in May. That was the first NASA on SOFIA airborne observatory for the first time on Jan. 21,

Congressional Continuing Resolution will allot to NASA. stratospheric astronomical probe since the 1989 Kuiper Air- 2011. A number of tests will follow before the first scientific

Dryden Director David McBride predicts that Dryden borne Observatory. The international crew was from NASA, the flights of SOFIA with GREAT take place in April 2011.

funding for 2012 will continue at about the present level. Universities Space Research Association and the German SO-

Present Dryden employment is 540 civil service personnel FIA Institute (Deutsches SOFIA Institut; DSI). Also on board Science Mission Directorate

and 650 contractors. The cancelled Constellation Program were Terry Herter and his colleagues from Cornell University. This group conducts airborne measurements in support

has been but a small part of Dryden’s activities, McBride says. They operated their Faint Object InfraRed Camera for the SO- of the Agency’s Earth Sciences branch. Robert Curry is the

All of Dryden’s major projects will continue, along with FIA Telescope, FORCAST, for this first in-flight observation. manager. Dryden has a fleet of four observation aircraft, plus

a new project assigned to Dryden this fall. The continuing “With FORCAST, within minutes, we can make observations two unmanned Global Hawks and the Ikhana. Global Hawk

projects include the X-48B blended wing flight tests, the that are either impossible from the surface of the Earth or can is the newest addition.

laminar flow studies, and integration of unmanned aerial be obtained only after many hours of exposure,” said Herter.

systems into the National Airspace from the NASA Aero- The telescope itself has exceeded expectations. “The im- Global Hawk High-Altitude Science Aircraft

nautics Directorate; SOPHIA from Astrophysics-Science Di- age stability and precision of the telescope alignment, which Curry says “Global Hawk is the most significant expansion of

rectorate; and Global Hawk from the Earth Science-Science can only be obtained through extensive control engineering, capability that users have seen in a long time. It has stimulated

Directorate. The Office of Chief Technologist assigned the has met all our targets and even exceeded them in some new types of campaign concepts for the science community.”

Flight Opportunities Project to Dryden in September. respects. This is exceptional performance, especially when The Global Hawk unmanned aircraft has a unique capabil-

McBride says “Tthe work at Dryden reaches out to new you recall that these astronomical observations have been ity for high-altitude (60,000 ft0, long-duration (30 hours)

Earth science missions. NASA now has two operational

Global Hawks. The first operational mission was the Glopac

mission. The flight paths were from Dryden to Alaska and

then over Hawaii. The A Train formation of environmental

satellites was underflown. This will allow improved calibra-

tion of the satellite instruments.

Later, the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Process proj-

ect was flown. GRIPs objective was to study hurricane for-

mation and dissipation processes. Global Hawk obtained

hurricane data for a continuous period of about 12 hours,

which has never been done before. During the mission, a

30-hour long flight was flown.

This February, Global Hawk is conducting a National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-led airborne field

campaign to study atmospheric rivers. These are a narrow

Boeing photograph by Robert Ferguson region in Earth’s atmosphere that transports enormous

amounts of water vapor across the Pacific or other regions.

Boeing’s X-48B Blended Wing Body technology demonstrator shows off its unique lines at sunset on Rogers Dry Lake adjacent to NASA’s Dryden

Flight Research Center.

See DRYDEN, Page 7



6 Aerotech News and Review March 11, 2011

DRYDEN, from 6 lons for aerosol sampling; a gyro-stabilized FedEx is replacing their Dc-8 cargo carriers, U-2S observation aircraft. It flies at about

pointing and tracking mirror system; a drop- and the spares were available at very attrac- 65,000 feet. Dryden has two ER-IIs. The

The project is called Winter Storms and Pa- sondes delivery tube; atmospheric chemistry tive prices. aircraft’s unique capabilities enable studies

cific Atmospheric Rivers, or WISPAR sampling probes; and multiple reinforced such as stratospheric ozone concentrations

A mobile ground operations control cen- ports that accept experiments that can be Gulfstream-III over Antarctica and the Arctic.

ter is being built. Delivery is anticipated aimed in virtually any direction. The GIII is a modified business jet. Its The ER-II is useful because of its ability

about the end of the summer. This will allow Data gathered by the DC-8 at flight alti- structure has been revised to accommodate to fly into the lower stratosphere at subsonic

more of the 30-hour flight time to be used tude and by remote sensing have been used a Jet Propulsion Lab Synthetic Aperture Ra- speeds, enabling direct stratospheric sam-

to take observations. for scientific studies in archaeology, ecology, dar, known as the UAVSAR, which is center- pling as well as virtual satellite simulation

Plans are to use both Global Hawks op- geography, hydrology, meteorology, ocean- line pod mounted. missions. The aircraft’s unique capabilities

erating from an east coast location for the ography, volcano logy, atmospheric chemis- Also, the aircraft has a Precision Path Au- enable studies such as stratospheric ozone

Hurricane and Sever Storm Sentinel-HS3- try, soil science and biology. It flies three pri- topilot. The PPA allows the aircraft to fly concentrations over Antarctica and the Arc-

campaign in 2012. Using the two Global mary missions: sensor development, satellite reproducible trajectories, with a reproduc- tic.

Hawks to relieve each other, it will be pos- sensor verification and basic research studies ibility of 5 meters. This, plus the sensitivity In May, ER-2 flew missions over the Gulf

sible to obtain continuous data from the of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere. of the SAR allows the G-III to do interfer- of Mexico and gulf coastal areas to survey

storm. In the past few months, the DC-8 has mea- ometer landscape surveys accurate within the extent and nature of the Gulf oil spill.

sured ice depth and coverage over the Arc- centimeters. The aircraft deployed at the request of

DC-8 Airborne Science Lab tic and Antarctic. It has carried researchers Last January, surveys of the earthquake NOAA, the National Oceanographic and

The DC-8 can carry up to 20 independent tracking the reentry and burnup of a cargo areas of Haiti and the Dominican Repub- Atmospheric Administration.

instruments, and take over 40 different at- carrier returning from the International Space lic were performed. They were added to a The ER-2 was outfitted with the Airborne

mospheric measurements. Station. Just last week, it served as spacecraft previously scheduled investigation of Central Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer and

The aircraft collects data for experiments launch data transmission station, after NA- America. the Cirrus Digital Camera System to collect

in support of scientific projects serving the SA’s previously contacted aircraft was unable In June, the G-III flew over the coastal detailed images. Developed by NASA’s Jet

world’s scientific community: NASA, federal, to do the job. areas impacted by the Gulf oil spill. The Propulsion Lab, the AVIRIS instrument is

state, academic and foreign investigators. It Student Airborne Research Programs flights over the coastline and oil slick were measuring how water absorbs and reflects

is very versatile. Payloads can be changed out take pace during the summer. These allow coordinated with ground and surface ship light in order to map the location and con-

in a short time. students to obtain first-hand experience in measurements. G-III had just returned from centration of oil, which separates into a

The DC-8 can accommodate on board up conducting field investigations of environ- the 17-day Canadian Experiment for Soil widespread, thin sheen and smaller thick

to 44 investigators. The Principal Investiga- mental measurements. This summer will be Moisture in 2010, or CanEX SM10, mis- patches.

tors can direct flight path changes in real the third for this project. sion in Saskatchewan, Canada. ICEAX was flown in the spring of 2010. It

time. The DC-8 can carry 30,000 pounds Dryden recently acquired a large stock of was an instrument development experiment,

of scientific instruments and equipment. DC-8 critical spares, which are now stored ER-II High Altitude Research Aircraft

Among the aircraft’s features are wing py- at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility. The ER-II is the civilian version of the See DRYDEN, Page 8









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March 11, 2011 Aerotech News and Review 77

DRYDEN, from 7

to measure the Earth’s Cryosphere-its frozen surfaces, snow

pack, and sea ice.

Starting in April, there will be MC3E, Mid-latitude Con-

tinental Convection Cloud Experiment. This will measure

sensor performance against a calibration site in Oklahoma.

2011-2012 budget considerations

As to future activity in the Science Mission Directorate,

Curry says: “We see at least the same levels of activity as in

the last two years, even with budget impacts on the agency.

We see that our airborne campaigns can be very cost effec-

tive and become particularly active if budgets are reduced.’

Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility

The newest operating unit of DFRC is the Dryden Aircraft

Operations Facility.

It was dedicated April 9, 2009. It is the home base for five

of the NASA aircraft routinely flown by Dryden in support

of airborne science missions. Steven Schmidt is the manager,

and there is a staff of 218 employees.

The DAOF, or Site 9 as it is routinely called by most of

Dryden, is located just east of AF Plant 42 in Palmdale. The

site is leased from Los Angeles World Airports. There are

16.2 acres, hanger 703, and direct taxiway access to the Plant

42 runways. The lease is for 20 years, at $1.4 million, and

was signed on Oct 2008. The operating budget is about $5

million each year. This does not include personnel salaries.

The aircraft floor area in hanger 703 is 210,000 square

feet. There is an equal amount of area devoted to offices,

conference rooms, labs, and storage areas. The building was

NASA photograph

originally used to produce and deliver B-1B bombers. It was

then subsequently sold to Boeing and then to Swiss Air, Flight test of the SOFIA with its observation door about half open.

which abandoned it. It had been vacant since 2002, and

Dryden invested $6.5 million in its refurbishment. that the lights in the hanger be turned off. This research project is designed to address operational

The hanger easily accommodates its assigned fleet The Currently there are no plans to add additional aircraft to and safety issues related to the integration of unmanned

largest is the SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory For Infra- the Dryden Aircraft Flight Facility. Asked about the effects aircraft systems into the national airspace.

red Astronomy). SOFIA is a 1.5 meter telescope mounted of the current federal budget crunch, Schmidt said, “The

in a 747-SP which has a door opening in its fuselage so that future looks really good. The current administration has a Boeing Phantom Ray Support

the telescope peers out at the heavens. Next is the DC-8 large interest in science and technology. I think things will Dryden is hosting the flight test operations of Boeing’s

Airborne Science Lab, which flies worldwide to make atmo- be very stable here. The future looks really bright.” Phantom Ray, a stealthy, jet-powered Unmanned Aircraft

spheric and ground observations. There is the Gulfstream System aircraft under a Boeing-funded commercial Space

III, which is fitted with a synthetic aperture radar instru- Aeronautics Mission Directorate Act agreement. It was ferried from the company’s facilities in

ment. There are two ER-2 aircraft. These are the NASA One of the original strong points of the Center was the St. Louis atop NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 905. It is the

versions of the U-2S high altitude observer. Aeronautics activities, and it remains so currently. Among first time something other than a space shuttle was carried by

Other aircraft are occasionally there. Recently, these includ- the recently active projects are the following. one of the two modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

ed two Boeing 747-AFs, and an Army-DARPA craft. Schmidt Dryden is providing hangar facilities, engineering and

said we were asked if we could help out. “We hosted them X-48 Blended Wing Body ground test support, as well as test range support for the

here, on a non-interference basis, and it has worked out well.” Boeing, NASA, and the Air Force Research Lab designed project. While here, the Phantom Ray will undergo a series

“All of the hangars at Dryden would fit in Building 703. and are funding the X-48B flight test program. of tests to prepare it to fly as a test bed for advanced tech-

This facility represents a doubling of the hangar space we The design is a cross between a conventional aircraft and nologies. Those tests are expected to culminate in a first

have available,” said Schmidt. “The DAOF offers a new di- a flying wing. It is undergoing flight tests at Dryden, which flight sometime in 2011.

mension to what Dryden offers and the location and facilities have progressed from high sped to the low air speed inves- Phantom Ray is based on the X-45C aircraft that Boeing

have the potential for partnerships and future projects that tigations. Flight tests are intended to validate the potential originally developed for the Joint-Unmanned Combat Air

might not have existed without the Palmdale presence.” advantages of the blended wing body aerodynamic concept. System program jointly sponsored by the Defense Advanced

“Putting all of these airborne platforms in one place has It is at 8.5 percent scale and is remotely piloted. The subscale Research Projects Agency, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S.

offered significant cost savings, efficiencies and effective- prototypes have a wingspan of 20.4 feet, with prominent Navy. That effort grew out of the X-45A project that suc-

ness. It also provides advantages for visiting scientists to tap vertical fins and rudders at the wingtips and elevons along cessfully flew two prototype technology-demonstration air-

Dryden resources closer to Burbank and Los Angeles. It the trailing edges of the wings. Three small model aircraft craft at NASA Dryden between 2002 and 2005.

has easier access from the airports and reduces some of the turbojet engines power it. Dryden Director David McBride

complexities for our foreign visitors,” Schmidt said. says that this design has the potential of lowering fuel burn Sonic Boom Abatement Studies

The DAOF also has easy access to the adjacent taxiways rate by 20 to 40 percent for a transport sized aircraft. For several years, NASA has been researching means

and runways at Air Force Plant 42. There is a Memo of Un- to reducing not only the strength of the shockwave pro-

derstanding so that DAOF has access to both of the 12,000 Laminar Flow Studies duced when a high-performance aircraft exceeds the speed

-eet runways, which are tended by Air Force flight con- The holy grail of aircraft wing design would be to achieve of sound, but also the perceived intensity of those shock-

trollers. The airspace is controlled by the FAA Los Angeles laminar flow over all the airspeeds. waves — or sonic booms — heard by persons on the ground.

Center, and Visual Flight Rules apply. Yet the huge restricted Such an avoidance of turbulence could reduce needed Dryden’s current Sonic Booms On Big Structures — or

airspaces over Edwards AFB, R2515 and R2508, are only power by 30 percent. For many years, Dryden has participat- “SonicBOBS” — project is part of that effort.

minutes away if needed for flight. ed in investigations, at first using a highly instrumented F- Two NASA F/A-18 aircraft flew a series of targeted super-

Accommodations for visiting experimenters are plentiful in 16XL. Currently, the F-15B Research Testbed is used. This sonic runs this fall, which resulted in multiple sonic booms

Palmdale. Access is easier, without the Edwards AFB visitor is a modified twin-engine jet fighter that provides NASA, of varying intensity being heard in the local area of Edwards

control requirements. For a recent DC-8 Airborne Science industry, and universities with long-term capability for the AFB. The experiments are examining the structural response

Lab project, there were about 75 experimenters involved, efficient flight test of aerodynamic, instrumentation, pro- of large office buildings to low-amplitude sonic booms.

who appreciated the shorter “commute to work” from Palm- pulsion, and other flight research experiments. The F-15B NASA engineers installed sensitive instrumentation in the

dale to the aircraft. Research Testbed is a unique airborne resource, a virtual Consolidated Support Facility office building to record the

One of the more interesting visitors was the Boeing 747- “flying wind tunnel.” structural response of the recently constructed building to

AF. The craft was in the hanger to perform the lightening the momentary overpressure of the sonic shockwaves.

strike survival test part of the FAA aircraft certification test. Integration of UAVs into National Airspace Several visitors who are influential in the development of

This involves putting a very low frequency low power pulse Dryden Flight Research Center is supporting NASA’s new planned supersonic cruise vehicles also experienced these

into the nose of the airplane, and checking its path, with aeronautics initiative called Unmanned Aircraft Systems Inte- quieter sonic booms, and recorded their impressions of each

instrumentation and visually. At one point, Boeing requested gration in the National Airspace System, or UAS in the NAS. boom on a questionnaire prepared by project engineers.



8 Aerotech News and Review March 11, 2011

Air Force Plant 42 Boeing reports busy, productive year involved with this year. He talked about Boeing’s success with the

by Diane Betzler

Air Force Plant 42 is a federally “In 2010 we joined an exciting new or- X-51A, an unmanned scramjet demonstra-

staff writer

owned military aerospace facility un- ganization within Boeing called Boeing Test tion aircraft. It’s a hypersonic air-breathing

Reports from Boeing indicate that 2010 and Evaluation,” Stolting said. He said the engine made by Pratt & Whitney and it flew

der the control of the Air Force Mate- was a busy and productive year for the nearly newly-formed organization has brought to- its first flight in 2010.

rial Command in Palmdale, Calif. 700 Antelope Valley employees scattered gether a lot of test and evaluation resources “We had a very successful supersonic first

throughout the company’s Palmdale and across all of Boeing and is led by Dennis flight with the longest duration of an air-

Aerospace contractors at Air Force Edwards Air Force Base facilities, and this O’Donoghue, BT&E vice president. breathing scramjet and now we hope to

Plant 42 share a common runway year promises to be just as rewarding for the “One of the organization’s goals was to in- move forward with the second flight here

complex and either lease building aerospace giant and its local workforce. tegrate and share the test and evaluation re- in 2011,” Stolting said.

“We’re supporting many programs across sources in the Antelope Valley and beyond,” He proudly boasted about the success of

space from the Air Force (commonly Edwards, Palmdale and Plant 42 specifical- Stolting said, during a recent telephone in- the ABL program and noted that it enjoyed

referred to as GOCO, or Government ly,” said John Stolting, Southwest Region terview with Aerotech News and Review. its first ballistic missile shoot down last year,

director of Flight Test Operations, Boeing Judging by the number of on-going pro- while using a laser speed-of-light weapon.

Owned Contractor Operated), or own Test and Evaluation. grams here in the Antelope Valley and the “It successfully took out the missile in its

their own building outright. Stolting said Boeing employees are enjoy- success of each program, Boeing officials be- boost phase and proved to be one of our

ing working on the many diverse programs lieve the BT&E organization is doing just biggest accomplishments for 2010.”

Currently the most well known con-

that support the company’s military and ci- what it set out to do. Stolting said Boeing has several upgrade

tractors at Plant 42 are Boeing, Lock- vilian customers. Naming some of the company’s success- programs in the works including upgrades

heed Martin and Northrop Grumman. “We do quite a bit up here with every- ful accomplishments during 2010, Stolting for the B-52, B-2 and B-1B bombers.

thing from small UAVs (unmanned aerial called out the X-48B Blended Wing Body “The B-1B recently completed the first

Plant 42 ranks as the Antelope vehicles) to the ABL,” he said. Program. The X-48 is a futuristic aircraft de- flight of the fully integrated data link, moving

Valley’s third largest employer, trail- The Airborne Laser, commonly referred signed for military cargo applications that that system into a more active role with the

to as the ABL, is a weapon system that con- will burn less fuel and make less noise than war fighters,” he said. “That,” he added, “is

ing only Edwards Air Force Base and

sists of a high-energy, chemical oxygen io- today’s conventional airplanes. Testing was a significant upgrade for the B-1B airplane.

Los Angeles County in the number of dine laser, known as a COIL. The COIL is conducted at the NASA Dryden Flight Re- Boeing is currently conducting the first sig-

workers employed. mounted on a modified Boeing 747-400F search Center at Edwards. nificant commercial testing being done here

aircraft and is designed to shoot down a bal- “We completed 80 flights on that pro- in the Antelope Valley in a very long time.

Commercial aerospace companies listic missile before it goes beyond its boost gram and then transitioned to the X-48C,” “We brought the 747-8 here from Seattle,

with facilities at Plant 42 are Lock- phase, thus destroying the enemy missile he said, adding that testers collected a lot Wash., and we’ve been supporting that pro-

right on its own turf. of data from the program and said the per- gram for the better part of a year,” he said.

heed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Stolting talked about the many accom- formance of the X-48 vehicle can be used Another big milestone Boeing is particu-

Boeing. plishments Boeing enjoyed last year and for future technology applications, making

shared some of what the company will be those accomplishments major milestones. See BOEING, Page 18







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Northrop Grumman

by Rebecca Amber terprise centered at Palmdale grew and delivered a number JSF F-35 Lightning II

staff writer of aircraft in 2009 and 2010. Northrop produces the center fuselage section of all three

While Global Hawks have been launched from Palm- basic F-35 variants in its Palmdale Manufacturing Center at

As one of Northrop Grumman’s largest Antelope Valley dale for years, the first landing of one of these unmanned Site 4 of Plant 42. During this past year, Northrop deliv-

facilities, Site 4 at Palmdale, prepares to celebrate its 25th aircraft took place on Dec. 14, 2009, and then the first ered 14 CF sections, bringing the total delivered to 40 so

anniversary, the company’s presence in the AV continues round-trip mission to operate from Palmdale took place far in the program. One of these was the United Kingdom’s

to grow and expand. in February 2010. The flight inaugurated the new Global first aircraft, a STOVL variant. Construction also began on

Hawk flight test facility at Palmdale, which had recently the first conventional version for the Netherlands.

X-47B UCAS-D program These aircraft were built under the current low-rate ini-

moved from Edwards. While developmental flight testing

Northrop Grumman has been contracted by the U. tial production contract, but looking forward to full-rate

will continue at Edwards, all production flight testing now

S. Navy to build to X-47B Unmanned Combat Air Sys- production needs, Northrop Grumman began building

takes place at Palmdale.

tem Demonstration aircraft as a part of the Navy’s effort their new Integrated Assembly Line, which will utilize

In June 2010, the RQ-4E Euro Hawk, built for the

to develop the complex hardware and software systems an unprecedented level of robotics, to meet a greatly in-

German Luftwaffe, made its first flight, and began its flight

needed to land an unmanned aircraft autonomously on creased production schedule.

test program at Edwards. In December, it flew its longest-

an aircraft carrier, as well as autonomous air-to-air re-

endurance flight to date, at 30 hours. Targets

fueling.

NASA’s Dryden Flight Research operates two of the Northrop’s long running BQM-74E Chukar unmanned

After months of taxi testing at Palmdale and Edwards

AFB through-out 2010, the first X-47B, AV-1, made its early YRQ-4 Block 0 Global Hawks as atmospheric re- target program for the U.S. Navy came to a close with the

first flight at Edwards on Feb. 4, with the second com- search aircraft, and in 2010, they operated two major sci- delivery, in December, of the last vehicle in a line of over

ing just under four weeks later on March 1. The second ence campaigns, the Glo-Pac mission series over the Pacific 8,000 that have been produced over the past four decades.

aircraft is expected to join the test effort later in 2011. ocean and the GRIP hurricane research flights over the The final handover to the Navy came just after flight

Atlantic. DAPRA awarded NGC and NASA a $33 mil- tests of a BQM-74E in which the target was equipped with

HALE Enterprise lion contract in June 2010 to develop autonomous aerial new software that allows it to fly its mission completely

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March 11, 2011

Lockheed Martin

by Rebecca Amber

staff writer

Lockheed Martin’s presence in the Antelope Valley is cen-

tered on its research and manufacturing facility at Air Force

Plant 42 in Palmdale, and its flight test operations at Ed-

wards AFB. The operation is part of LM’s Aeronautics Unit,

and goes by the title Advanced Development Programs, or

more popularly, Skunk Works.

Lockheed’s Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft first flew

from Palmdale in June 2009, as a one-of-a-kind technology

demonstrator to explore the uses of composite materials in

aircraft structure. Renamed the X-55 by the Air Force that

October, the plane started as a Fairchild Dorneir 328JET

and had its fuselage completely replaced with a new, wider

Lockheed Martin-developed tube that utilized out-of-auto-

clave curing for its materials. The aircraft continues flying its

development test program over the Antelope Valley.

Current manufacturing projects in Palmdale include the

Courtesy image

manufacturing of antennas, radomes and wing leading edg-

es for the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II. The Skunk HTV-2 reentry illustration.

Works also produced the wing leading edges for the two

Northrop Grumman/U.S. Navy X-47B UCAS-D aircraft, flight May 12, 2010, and immediately entered their flight The Israeli Defense Minister authorized that nation’s pur-

with deliveries completed in December 2009. regimes. The third aircraft soon followed. chase of put to 20 F-35s, parts of which will also be built in

The Joint Strike Fighter F-35 Lightning II, with portions In 2010, the UMSC’s short take-off vertical landing F- the Antelope Valley.

manufactured by both Lockheed Martin and Northrop 35B saw the third and fourth airframes delivered to NAS In January 2011, the first of hopefully a series of C-5A

Grumman in the Antelope Valley, burst onto the flight test Patuxent River for testing, the the first one, BF-1, made its Galaxy cargo aircraft arrived at Palmdale for a five-month

scene in 2010. The first two of the Air Force’s F-35A con- first vertial landing. Likewise, CF-1, the Navy’s first F-35C modification and maintenance cycle, representing additional

ventional takeoff and landing version, designated AF-1 and carrier variant also made its delivery flight from Fort Worth, employment potential for the Antelope Valley above the cur-

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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems

by Rebecca Amber testing and aircraft payload integration. “Valuing the Individual” categories. The study, which is

staff writer In early June, the U.S. Fleet Forces Command’s Trident conducted annually, surveys 78 percent of the aerospace and

Warrior 2010 became the site for the demonstration of the defense workforce, seeing how the companies are meeting

In 2009, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. in- Maritime Wide Area Search. The MWAS is intended for the the basic requirements for their employees.

troduced the latest in its well-known Predator UAS series, Lynx SAR/GMTI and is able to detect small vessels includ- On Feb. 15, 2011, GA-ASI revealed completion of a key

the jet-powered Predator C Avenger. ing self-propelled semi-submersible vessels. wind tunnel test for a model of its Sea Avenger UAS. Provid-

The Avenger preformed its maiden flight at the company’s On Aug. 17, 2010, GA-ASI revealed that they had been ing a long-endurance, carrier-based UAS for the U.S. Navy,

Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., named one of the top employers in Aviation Week’s 2010 the Sea Avenger supports the Unmanned Carrier-Launched

without any discrepancies. Workforce Study for the “Technological Challenge” and Airborne Surveillance and Strike program.

In July of that same year, the U.S. Customs and Border Pro-

tection deployed a Predator B UAS and P-3 aircraft to perform

law enforcement operations along the Northern Border as

part of a multi-agency effort called Operation Empire Shield.

Later that year, GA-ASI along with the CBP and the U.S.

Coast Guard revealed the prototype maritime variant Preda-

tor B, also known as Guardian, at a ceremony in Palmdale

California.

In 2010, GA-ASI reached its one million flight hours mark

for the Predator-series UAS. This achievement includes just

under 80,000 total missions, 85 percent of which occurred

during combat. Flight hours for the Predators have grown

significantly over the last 6 years starting with 80,000 hours

in 2006 and increasing up to 295,000 by 2009.

In May of the same year, the Lynx Block 30 Synthetic

Aperture Radar/Ground Moving Target Indicator, which

supports Army combat in Iraq, exceeded 1,000 total mis-

sion hours on Sky Warrior Block 1 aircraft. Since December

2009, four Sky Warrior UAS’s have been deployed equipped

with Lynx radars as part of the Army’s Quick Reaction Capa-

bility deployment for the Extended Range/ Multi-Purpose

UAS Program.

The Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility in Palmdale is

being used to test UAV payloads such as the Synthetic Ap-

erture Radar/Ground Moving Target Indicator radar and

the Lynx Advanced Multi-channel Radar on the Predator

B. Successful flight tests were completed following software





Mojave Air and Space Port Civilian Aerospace Flight Test Facility

by Raphael Jaffe purchase a state-of-the-art crash rescue/fire

staff writer truck. To fight a possible composite material

fire, it uses a foam fire suppression system.

There has been an airport in Mojave since There is equipment to assist in evacuating

1935 — starting as a landing strip to serve personnel from SpaceShipTwo. Mojave was

silver and gold miner’s planes to an interna- given over half of the total available under

tionally known and respected space port, is this FAA program.

the progress of Mojave Air and Space Port.

It is operated by the East Kern Airport Union Pacific ground lease

District, without using any county tax funds. Union Pacific is leasing a 40 acre site that

It has a 12,500-feet runway and several is used in transporting wind turbine blades

smaller runways. There are more than 3,300 and other components to a local wind-power

acres, and the tower is operational on weekdays farm. The lease fee is $30,000 per month.

and when needed during special needs times. New gates were installed on the site, which

There is a spirit of innovation at Mojave. is at the west end of the airport.

“Mojave is to the emerging space indus- The trans-loading site is offset from the

try what Silicon Valley was to the computer Scaled Composites photo end of the airport runway. The unloading

industry. There is a concentration of like- The Northrop Grumman X-47. crane and the airport tower work together,

minded businesses here like no where else so as to not interfere with airport operations.

on the world,” says Jeff Greason, president Masten Space Systems won first place in upgrades to the security system and Unicom, UP leased a 10-acre off-loading site in the

of XCOR, a Mojave tenant. Several slogans the Lunar Lander Challenge Level 2 Oct. 30, and establishing two levels of fencing pro- fall of 2009, and were very pleased with the

are appropriate: “Unrestricted dream space,” 2009; and second place in Level 1 Oct. 7. tection. Other improvements were install- cooperation of the airport.

and “You can see the future from here.” Mojave Air and Space Port has developed ing and upgrading the Automatic Weather

Mojave is called the Civilian Aerospace itself as an intermodal transportation hub. Observation Station. Airport land use compatibility plan

Test Center. From 1975 and stretching to There are rail spurs and transfer areas for The Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan

the present there have been a string of “First truck cartage. Sound budget has been approved by Kern County. The up-

Flight” designations for aircraft and space- The East Kern Airport District board has dated ALUCP expands the area to reflect

craft. On Oct. 4, 2004, SpaceShipOne won Improvements traditionally budgeted in a conservative fash- special aircraft safety conditions.

the Ansari $10 million X Prize by complet- The Air/Space Port made significant capi- ion. This has paid off by being able to make The only IFR approach pattern that does

ing two flights to above the edge of space tal improvements during the past year. these improvements without going into its not intrude upon restricted air space that

(60 miles) within two weeks. Its successor, These included upgrading several build- reserves. is controlled by the military, is for runway

SpaceShipTwo, had completed four free ings, the water system, and the storm water Another example is that the district could 4/22. Wind turbines, which are about 400

flight glide tests as of Jan. 13. handling system Other improvements were met the FAA 50 percent matching require- to 600 feet above ground level to the tip of

There is a string of first flight records set at installing an Automatic Dependent Surveil- ment for a spaceport improvement grant. the blade, would intrude into the safety zone

Mojave for rocket propelled aircraft, starting lance-Broadcast system to upgrade tower FAA Office of Commercial Space Transpor- required for approaching aircraft. Also, re-

in July 21, 2001 with the XCOR Aerospace operations; and upgrading communications, tation has given Mojave Air and Space Port

EZ Rocket. data and information flow with fiber optics, a grant of about $224,000. It was used to See MOJAVE, Page 13



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MOJAVE, from 12

turning space craft are gliders, and need the expanded area to

be able to circle as they lose altitude prior to final approach.

The airport fully supports the economic and environmental

benefits of alternate energy sources. Adoption of the pro-

posed ALUCP has reduced the uncertainty associated with

permitted areas for wind parks. Alta Wind Power and the

airport have cooperated in planning the revised ALUCP. The

new plan limits the wind industry’s placement of turbines

near the airport.



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Terra Gen Power (Alta Windpower Development) is de-

veloping one of the largest wind power farms in the United

States.

The Alta Wind Power Center is planned to ultimately gen-

erate 3,000 MW of electricity, using 750 turbines, and an

area of 50 square miles. The first phase is Alta Wind I, and

includes 100 turbines generating 150 MW. Alta has a power

purchase agreement with Southern Cal Edison for 1550 MW,

for a 20 year period. By working with the airport and others,

they have obtained an FAA determination of “no hazard” for

its development near the airport. They and the airport have

cooperated in expanding the airport’s Influence Area for the

Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan. The new plan limits

the wind industry’s placement of turbines near the airport.

AWD has donating $130,000 to the airport, to pay for the

upgrade of its Automatic Weather Observation Station, and

10 years of life cycle maintenance. Also, in recognition of the

joint interest in green energy development, AWD donated

$150,000 to be used to purchase and display in perpetuity

a SpaceShipOne replica. AWD will be identified as a major

contributor to the SpaceShipOne display. The SpaceShipOne

Courtesy photograph replica had been purchased from the X Prize Foundation, as

Vestas V90-3.0 MW turbines will be added to the huge wind farm near Tehachapi Pass. The towers and blades are transshipped using the Mojave

previously authorized by the board.

Air/Space Port intermodal hub.

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Mojave Air and Space Port — tenants

By Rebecca Amber to be more cost effective, requiring far less maintenance and

Staff writer resulting in far less downtime.



Flight Research Inc.

ASB Avionics Flight Research, Inc, at the Mojave Air and Space Port,

ASB Avionics, located at the Mojave Air and Space Port has continues to support its sister entity, the National Test Pilot

been heavily into the C-130 Hercules upgrade and avionics School with aircraft and maintenance services. The company

cockpit modifications. They have been developing an STC for recently moved into their new, much larger headquarters

auto-pilot on the C-130. So far, they have modified six new building that replaced one of the airport’s antiquated World

aircraft with the auto-pilot upgrade. War I-era hangars.

While they still offer avionics upgrades for many other types

of aircraft, the goal for the last 10 years has been to gear them- Masten Space Systems

selves for the C-130 market. Their specialization will change as Mojave’s Masten Space Systems is one of the smaller rocket

the market changes. They are a versatile company which allows shops in terms of facilities and staff size, but certainly not in

them to move with the demand of the time. accomplishments and notariety.

The company has also developed a unique HF dorsal shunt In October 2009, they flew their XA-0.1B vertical lift-

antenna for the Hercules family of aircraft. When tested, off/vertical landing rocket, nicknamed Xombie, to win Photograph by Alan Radecki

the shunt antenna, mounted in a modified dorsal fin fairing, the $150,000 second prize in Level One of the prestigious

proved to be far more effective than the old wire antennas, al- Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge X Prize compe- Masten Space Systems Xombie vertical-liftoff/vertical-landing rocket

lowing workable transmissions a quarter of the way around the flies during the October 2009 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Chal-

world from the ground. The shunt antenna has also proven lenge X Prize competition, in which it won $150,000 second prize.

See TENANTS, Page 16



MOJAVE, from 13

Solar power spaceflight system. Virgin Galactic will be inside Enterprise, practicing release from the flying qualities, automatic carrier landing sys-

In December, the district signed a Power able to offer researchers’ flights to space that mother ship and simulating landings. tem capability, and simulated arrestment. An

Purchase Agreement and associated ground are unprecedented in frequency and cost. Sci- After six carrier flights, the first free glide additional objective was to help Northrop

and office space leases with Green Volts, Inc. ence flights will be an important growth area flight of Enterprise was Oct 10. That flight, demonstrate their capability to design and

of Freemont, Calif. for the company in the years to come, build- as for the two subsequent glide flights, lasted build a proof-of-concept aircraft in a short

Green Volts will build a concentrated ing on the strong commercial success already about 12 minutes. The first glide reached a period of time at a low cost.

photovoltaic power generation facility on demonstrated by deposits received from over speed of 180 knots, and loading of 2 g. The The Global Flyer is a single seat, turbo-

16,500 square feet of land near the Admin- 400 individuals for Virgin’s space experience”. last flight in 2010 reached 246 knots and 3.5 fan powered airplane designed to fly around

istration building, which will supply all the g acceleration. Stall behavior has been tested. the world nonstop, un-refueled, with a solo

power needed for utilities, communication Scaled Composites On the last glide flight, Jan. 13, 2011, pilot. It achieved this milestone for the first

and security needs. It will be tied into the Scaled has increased employment about the Enterprise evaluated the flutter enve- time on March 3, 2005 after 67 hours and

present emergency generator Uninterrupt- three-fold, to about 400, since its success lope, and 3.8 g was reached. Stall with an aft one minute of flying time. With that, Pilot

ible Power System, and the electrical grid. with WhiteKnightOne and SpaceShipOne. cg was evaluated by carrying water ballast, Steve Fossett set the record for fastest time

The district is paying a one-time fixed fee of It is interesting to note that these two which was vented before landing. around the world un-refueled. The empty

$60,000 to secure a fixed energy payment were designed and built in 2003-24 by a On their first cross country flight, Oct 22, weight is 3,350 lb, and the gross weight is

rate of 7 cents per kw-hr for the entire term crew of 36 persons. Scaled has a contract 2010, WhiteKnightTwo carried Enterprise 22,000 pounds.

of the 20 year agreement. Currently the dis- with The Spaceship Company to build five to the dedication of Spaceport America in The Global Flyer eventually made three

trict pays about 13 cents. SpaceShipTwo aircraft and two WhiteK- New Mexico. They made two passes over solo nonstop flights around the world, and

At present Mojave Air and Space Port has nightTwo launch aircraft. The Spaceship the airport and landed on the new runway. it is now on display at the National Air and

more than 40 tenants, and is 100 percent Company is a joint venture of Scaled Com- Their last test was 12 days earlier, the highly Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy

full. The tenants include Scaled Composites, posites and Virgin Galactic. successful first glide test of Enterprise. Center. Its design was based on the Voyager,

BAE Systems, and The Spaceship Company. In December, 2009, SpaceShipTwo, also There are a number of other advanced which made the first un-refueled non-stop

Developing small firms include XCOR Aero- known as VSS Enterprise, was introduced. aircraft designed and built by Scaled. One is flight around the world, and is also on dis-

space, Masten Space Systems, and Firestar A vigorous flight test program has ensued. Pegasus X-47A, an unmanned aerial vehicle play at the National Air and Space Museum.

Engineering. ASB Avionics and Flight Test Concurrently, its mother ship launch plat- built for Northrop Grumman. The objective Scaled also has contracts for a number

Associates do aircraft modifications. The Na- form aircraft, WhiteKnightTwo, completed of this program was to construct a demon- of other aircraft programs. Founder, Chief

tional Test Pilot School is the largest civilian its own flight test program. There were 24 strator aircraft for Northrop, which would Technical Officer, and Board Chairman

test pilot school in the world. flight tests in 2010. The first carrier flight for validate their commitment to the UCAV-N Emeritus Burt Rutan is scheduled to retire

Enterprise was on March 22, 2010 and on program and demonstrate several challeng- in April, 2011. Until then he is working 80

Virgin Galactic July 15 at carrier flight 3, there were pilots ing mission parameters, including: low speed hours a week on his final aircraft design.

Virgin Galactic is Sir Richard Branson’s

commercial space company. The Spaceship Company

It will take tourists to the edge of space, Lease agreements have been signed by

six at a time. So far over 400 passengers have Mojave Air and Space Port and The Space-

signed on for the $200,000 adventure, and ship Company for the land on which TSC

Galactic has $50 million in fare and depos- is building a 68,000 square feet hanger and

its. Commercial flights are expected to start office building. TSC is building/buying

in 2012. The test program is conducted by SpaceShipTwo and its carrier craft, WhiteK-

Scaled Composites at Mojave. nightTwo for Virgin Galactic, which will

Virgin Galactic and South West Research operate them for space tourism.

Institute have just announced a contract. The structure is called FAITH, Final As-

SwRI has made full deposits for two research- sembly Integration Testing Hanger. The

ers to fly on Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft, with building is sized to support the production

the intent to make similar arrangements for of two WhiteKnightTwos and at least two

an additional six seats for a total value of $1.6 SpaceShipTwos in parallel and has been de-

million. As well as flying its own researchers, signed to meet LEED standards. It is de-

who will carry scientific experiments devel- signed with a clear span.

oped by its in-house technical staff, SwRI will Ground breaking for this largest structure

fly payloads and personnel for others. at Mojave was Nov. 9, 2010. TSC has a 55

Commenting on the agreement, George year lease on the acreage, at a rental starting

Whitesides, president and CEO of Virgin Photo by Mark Greenberg at about $57,500 per year and increasing

Galactic said: “This agreement signals the each two years by about $20,000. In year

VSS Eve and Enterprise visit New Mexico’s Spaceport America, their future home base.

enormous scientific potential of the Virgin 10, the rental will be about $144,000.



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TENANTS, from 14 of their rocket line. In May, they demonstrated the first ever unique expertise has led them to be involved in a wide num-

mid-air relight of a single engine VLVL craft, and in August, ber of projects that transcend industries, from aerospace to

tition. Later that same month, Masten’s smaller but longer- the company’s fame had turned into a contract with NASA wind energy generation to body armor.

endurance XA0.1E Xoie claimed the top place in the Level in their Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research program. After having built a number of specialty aircraft parts for

Two competition, beating out Texas’ Armadillo Aerospace This program has led to Xombie being redesigned to in- NASA, Fiberset has expanded to service the burgeoning lo-

Corp. and winning $1 million in prize money. clude a re-stacking of the tank arrangement and a new aero cal wind energy generation industry, which has a lot of com-

As a result, in January 2010, company founder Dave shell skin that will allow it to fly to much higher altitudes monalities with aerospace in terms of materials and design.

Masten was named Aviation Week and Space Technology’s and air speeds. The new, beefier craft was called Brutus for Fiberset is also providing composite structures develop-

Person of the Year, and a few months later Popular Science a while, but has been rechristened Xaero. Flight testing is ment support to Maglev Wind Turbine Technologies, who

named Xombie to their prestigious “Best of What’s New for expected to begin in early 2011. are developing new, more efficient wind turbines that utilize

2010” list in the aerospace and defence category. magnetic levitation to reduce friction, allowing more of the

Not basking in that glory, the company returned to its Antelope Valley General Aviation Services wind’s energy to be converted to useable power.

rocket science roots and sought to continue the development Antelope Valley General Aviation Services has been per- The same tough composite materials that protect a fighter

forming its business as usual for the last several years. This plane can be molded in a different form to protect soldiers

has included a lot of paint work from small single-engine and law enforcement officers wearing lightweight body ar-

aircraft to medium size twins. They have also been work- mor. Using proprietary processes Fiberset has developed,

ing on providing interior upgrades as well as their standard tested and is manufacturing this life-saving product.

maintenance and repair activity.

AVGAS has opened its hangar doors to several events host- Flight Test Associates

ed at the airport in past year including all Plane Crazy Satur- Flight Test Associates currently occupies two hangars at

day’s sponsored by the Mojave Transportation Museum. In the Mojave Air and Space port, and also operates a large

2010 the hangar was used to set up a small child-sized train airliner storage area.

ride for children to enjoy during the celebration of the 75th FTA markets itself as a provider of OEM-level aircraft

anniversary of the Mojave Air and Space Port. The hangar modification engineering and certification services, as well

opened its doors again in February of this year to welcome as engineering design, procurement management, complete

Jim Payne for a presentation on the riding the Sierra Wave. flight test services, FAA certification and aircraft mainte-

In February of 2011, owner of AVGAS, Rob Loughlin, nance and repair.

was awarded an Honorary Lifetime Membership by the The company has established itself in a niche market pro-

MTM Foundation. This was accompanied by the presen- viding jet engine noise reduction technologies, or “hush

tation of an American flag that was flown over the capitol kits” as well as re-engining projects, in which FTA supports

and an accompanying certificate signed by Rep. Kervin Mc- customers who desire to certify the use of different, more

Carthy, R-Calif. modern engine models on their aircraft. The company’s cur-

AVGAS expects the next year to continue to conducting rent project involves modifying a Beechjet 400 to utilize

business as usual. fuel-efficient Williams FJ-44 engines in place of its original

Pratt & Whitney JT-15s.

Photograph courtesy of the Mojave Transportation Museum Fiberset FTA offers a complete package for RVSM which includes

Rob Loughlin receives a certificate from Bill Deaver, MTM president.

Fiberset is one of several specialty composites manufac-

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design, installation and certification flight

testing, all supported by structural, electri-

cal, avionics and flight test DERs. RVSM is

an international regulatory program which

is required on aircraft that operate between

29,000 feet and 41,000 feet, and mandates

improved altimeter sensitivity so that air traf-

fic can operate with only a 1,000 foot vertical

separation, thus allowing more aircraft to oc-

cupy the same airspace.

FTA changes with the aerospace industry

to accommodate its customers and has done

so since it opened its doors in 1996.



XCOR Aerospace

XCOR Aerospace announced in Septem-

ber of 2009 that the 5K18 rocket engine

test program, which will power their Lynx

suborbital spacecraft, had achieved several

milestones in engine development. Photograph by Rebecca Amber

Videos were released showing the “shock The Spaceship Company’s new hangar, FAITH will become their new operating headquarters used mainly for the final assembly, integration and testing of TSC’s

diamond” pattern that can be seen in the vehicles prior to entering service.

engine’s supersonic exhaust.

Later that year, it was announced that nounced that the long life, high performance Firestar Technologies crew module walls, and a number of spec-

the Yecheon Astro Space Center in South piston pump technology with liquid hydro- Firestar Technologies, formerly Firestar troscopy technologies for studying materials.

Korea had selected XCOR Aerospace as its gen had completed its first successful dem- Engineering, is one of Mojave’s growing

preferred supplier for suborbital space launch onstration on June 8, 2010. number of rocket development companies. The Spaceship Company

services. In response, XCOR shared its in- That same year, XCOR announced that They specialize in the development of spe- The Spaceship Company, a joint project of

tentions of supplying services to the Center they had finished the primary supersonic cialized propulsion system designs, including Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic, held

using the Lynx Mark II suborbital vehicle wind tunnel testing of the Lynx suborbital the use of monopropellants, which show the its ground breaking ceremony for its new

under a wet lease model. spacecraft. Testing, of a precision scale mod- potential for simplifying spacecraft design, Final Assembly, Integration and Test Hangar

In 2010, XCOR joined with another local el, was done at NASA Marshall Space Flight as separate oxidizer storage, pumping and at Mojave Air and Space Port Nov. 9, 2010.

business, Airgas Inc. in announcing a 15-year Center where data was collected to make pluming systems are not required. Present at the ceremony were Rep. Kevin

product sales and sponsorship agreement. final refinements to the vehicle. Firestar is also bringing this deep-space McCarthy, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Rep. Jean

Airgas has agreed to provide helium, nitro- On Feb. 24, 2011, XCOR Aerospace an- technology down to earth, developing a Fuller and other local community leaders.

gen and liquid oxygen for XCOR’s reusable, nounced that the Southwest Research In- piston engine that will use the same mono- Upon completion, FAITH will become

non-toxic propulsion systems included the stitute had purchased six suborbital flights propellant as rocket engines, thus making the operating headquarters used mainly for

XCOR Lynx. In addition, the companies will to carry SwRI experiments and payload spe- possible such engines that operate at the ex- the final assembly, integration and testing of

also work together on marketing programs cialists. This is a first for both the reusable tremely high altitudes which long-endurance TSC’s vehicles prior to entering service. The

to promote the XCOR propulsion systems suborbital launch vehicle industry as well as UAVs have to fly. new hangar will fit a 737 as well as office

and suborbital space launch services. SwRI. Firestar has complete a range of NASA space, altogether occupying 68,000 square

In May of 2010, XCOR, along with Mas- Just four days later, XCOR Aerospace an- and DoD contracts related to propulsion feet. This size will accommodate the produc-

ten Space Systems, announced their strategic nounced its initial team of suborbital payload and subsystem developments. They have tion of two SpaceShipTwos and two of the

business and technology relationship. Their integration specialists. The team is to begin also branched to other related fields, and WhiteKnightTwo mother ships, while still

goal was to pursue the unmanned lander facilitating experiment development and in- are working on projects such as a means of meeting the LEED Standards.

projects sponsored by NASA, which act as tegration for government suborbital research mining lunar resources in conjunction with Meanwhile, TSC is finishing upgrades to

robotic test beds on Earth, Mars, the moon missions aboard XCOR’s Lynx reusable sub- Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms its existing fabrication and sub-assembly fa-

and near Earth objects. orbital launch vehicle as well as commercial Corp., an inflatable wheel to be used on plan- cilities. The company is currently looking to

XCOR and United Launch Alliance an- and educational missions. etary rovers, materials to be used in spacecraft hire 20+ new employees to expand its team.









Photograph by Rebecca Amber



Owner of Flight Test Associates, John Ligon poses in front of a Beech Jet 400.





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