Newsgroups: sci.military Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!cbnews!military From: Ran El-Yaniv Subject: US Army RPV competition - Israeli contender Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Date: Fri, 19 Oct 90 18:17:35 GMT Approved: military@att.att.com Message-ID: <1990Oct19.181735.17452@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military-request@att.att.com Lines: 17 From: Ran El-Yaniv The Israeli contender for the US Army RPV competition has made an 80 minute flight two days ago. The craft, powered by two motors (pusher and puller) is 7 meters long and has a wing-span of 9 meters. The expected payload is (reportedly) 40kg, which seems a bit low. I suspect the payload is a mistake (especially since the flight time of the test flight was reported as 80 HOURS twice, than corrected). The other competitor is (IIANM) McDonnel Douglas special project division... yaniv@shum.huji.ac.il