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- Title
Taranis and beyond: inspiring aerodynamic capability.
- Authors
Lee, C.
- Abstract
In his 1916 book, Aircraft in Warfare, the Dawn o f the Fourth Arm, F.W. Lanchester wrote: "The supremacy of British aircraft can only be maintained by the adoption o f a thoroughly progressive constructional policy, guided constantly by the most recent scientific discovery and research, and by utilising to the full information and experience gained in the Services. " The recent successful flight trials of the Taranis low-observable unmanned demonstrator aircraft provide the latest evidence of the UK's continued capacity for the entire design, development, manufacture, and flight testing of world-leading combat aircraft, particularly with regard to Aerodynamics. Taranis is both the culmination of many years' research and development in the UK and a starting-point for the next generation of UK combat air systems. In this lecture, Taranis is reviewed, in such detail as current sensitivities will allow, in the wider context of UK combat aircraft aerodynamic capability, exemplified by the leading roles taken by the UK in the Tornado and Typhoon programmes and the important contribution made to the development of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; AERODYNAMICS research; DRONE aircraft; AIRCRAFT in Warfare, the Dawn of the Fourth Arm (Book); MILITARY airplanes; LANCHESTER, F. W. (Frederick William), 1868-1946; FLIGHT testing; BAC Lightning (Jet fighter plane); F-35 (Military aircraft); AIRPLANE design
- Publication
Aeronautical Journal, 2014, Vol 118, Issue 1206, p845
- ISSN
0001-9240
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0001924000009593