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EOLE - unmanned aerial launch platform

Posted by IKE on June 22, 2011 at 8:35am

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This is a scaled model for Eole, a french project under CNES on developing an unmanned aerial platform for launching rockets. This scaled model (1/2.2) is evaluating the flight dynamics and by next year rocket launches will take place in a specialized facility by the full version. It will be fully autonomous apart from the take-off and landing and it will operate within a 30km range. It looks like Scaled Composites White Knight 1 but it is much smaller.

 

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More info :

project website (in French): Présentation EOLE

Eole aerial launch platform - CNES, Perseus

 

Tags: aerial, cnes, eole, launch, perseus
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  • bGatti June 24, 2011 at 6:29am
    Hey - that's original.
  • Laurent Michelet June 22, 2011 at 3:10pm
    Not really.. i'm just the publisher/editor of the french aeromodelling magazine RC Pilot (www.rcpilot-online.com) and Eric is a friend of mine ;o)
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  • IKE June 22, 2011 at 2:49pm

    Laurent that's how I found this project, through http://www.adjets.com . Their work is stunning.

    Aviation Design is mentioned in both links above.

     

    Do you have any relation to this project or with adjets?

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    Krzysztof Bosak June 22, 2011 at 10:53am
    Very demanding projct concerning the propulsion and fuselage joining. I am jealous that relatively small group of ppl get  funding in France for such a project.
  • Laurent Michelet June 22, 2011 at 9:29am

    Hello

    Project made with collaboration of a well-known french jet modeller, Eric Rantet, owner of Aviation Design (www.adjets.com). He is also working for Dassault on futuristics drones...

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