RARE JET WITH THRUST VECTOR CONTROL:
Rockwell RPRV-870 HiMAT USAF
Erich Liechti brachte ein wahres Kunstwerk zum Eigenbautreffen nach Huttwil (Switzerland). Den Rockwell RPRV-870 HiMAT hat Erich anhand Fotos aus dem Internet gebaut. Es gibt keine Pläne von diesem Experimentalflugzeug.
Atemberaubend die Flugvorführungen, unterstützt mit Rauch.
Rockwell RPRV-870 HiMAT (Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology) war ein Experimentalflugzeug, welches aus einem Entwicklungsprogramm der NASA hervorging.

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”.

First flight was in 1979 and testing was completed in 1983.

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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)