Did you know that less than 100 people have flown in Proteus since it first flew in July of 1998? One more was added to the number earlier this year when Guy Norris of Aviation Week Network joined us for a high-altitude flight to demonstrate the uniqueness of the aircraft, its capabilities, and the differences when flying at high altitude. We welcomed him into the club with a sudden rain shower after landing, as is tradition for the first time someone flies in one of our experimental aircraft! It was a delight to deep dive into what the aircraft is capable of – read more on what it is like to fly in Proteus here: https://lnkd.in/gHdTWVRH #FlightTest #FlyHigh #HighAltitude
Scott Dann. Darren Cortines - How many times did we hang a FJ44 engine in one of the PredB, ERAST airframes? Three times? Only ran it at Walled Lake facility with Jim Devlin. Shout out to all of you! Pedro Luque. How many late/all nights to loft the inlet and exhaust geometry? More than you can count?? Shout to you as an invaluable part of the ERAST program that was created by NASA. JDF - shout out to you, too.
Darin Scines
4mo
👋 pick me 👋 pick me if you need to get those numbers up. Love this airplane.
WI FJ 44-2E!! Enough said! Repeat after me 🤣:At the heart of every successful aircraft is a high performance, high reliability propulsion system…In thrust we trust! Uniquely high altitude capable, great fuel economy, great reliability. A robust design! Well done, Scaled, to partner with WI on your propulsion system and thank you for sharing your high altitude performance data with the other ERAST ALLIANCE partners!
All for a bit of friendly competition with Proteus as part of the ERAST program. Wether you got to fly PROTEUS, or not, the quest for flight records and completion of program milestones was amazing fun! Thank you to all the ERAST partners and the entire NASA ERAST organization that made this possible!
Keep growing!
Kathii Becker
4mo
Keep growing!
On-Demand Last Mile Precision Landing Operations - Reusable Launch & Recovery
4moI worked on this and was there for the rollout. We had the airplane staged down 26 at the East end of the airport. Tracor had an F-4 do a fly by down 26. With everyone looking west, Proteus crept up to midfield and then began a high angle departure after what was a very short rollout. Caught everyone by surprise...was a very quiet aircraft.