Rockwell HiMAT
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| Role | Experimental Remotely Piloted Aircraft |
| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | Rockwell |
| First flight | 1979 |
| Retired | 1983 |
| Status | On display |
| Primary user | NASA |
| Number built | 2 |
The Rockwell RPRV-870 HiMAT (Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology) was a NASA program to develop technologies for future fighter aircraft. Among the technologies explored were close-coupled canards, fully digital flight control (including propulsion), composite materials (graphite and fiberglass), Remotely Piloted Aircraft, Synthetic vision, winglet etc.
The winning design was produced by Rockwell International.
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Design and development
The HiMAT were remotely piloted, as the design team decided that it would be cheaper and safer to not have a pilot on board who could be killed in a crash. This also meant that no ejection seat would have to be fitted. The aircraft was flown by a pilot in a remote cockpit, and control signals up-linked from the flight controls in the remote cockpit on the ground to the aircraft, and aircraft telemetry downlinked to the remote cockpit displays. The remote cockpit could be configured with either nose camera video or with a 3D synthetic vision display called a "visual display".[1]
First flight was in 1979 and testing was completed in 1983.
Operators
Aircraft on display
The two HiMAT aircraft are now on display, one at the National Air and Space Museum and the other at the Armstrong Flight Research Center.[2]
Specifications
General characteristics
- Crew: none
- Length: 22.5 ft (6.86 m)
- Wingspan: 15.6 ft (4.75 m)
- Height: 4.3 ft (1.31 m)
- Max. takeoff weight: 3,400 lb (1,542 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × General Electric J85-21 turbojet
Performance
- Maximum speed: Mach 1.6 (1,960 km/h)
Gallery
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HiMAT aircraft at the National Air and Space Museum
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HiMAT Remote Cockpit with Synthetic Vision Display
See also
References
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- ↑ Boeing: HiMAT Research Vehicles. Boeing. Retrieved May 21, 2014.
- ↑ Simonsen, Erik (May, 2007). HiMAT’s flight marked the dawn of unmanned highly maneuverable aircraft technology. Boeing. Retrieved May 21, 2014.
Further reading
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External links
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- HiMAT Research Vehicle at Boeing.com
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