Jun 182008
 

The DuPont DP-2 was (or perhaps still is) a concept for a VTOL jet transport, with a general configuration that hearkens back to the Bell X-14. It has been under development for an extremely long time, acruing a great deal of controversy. Read about that here, here and here. See images of it here.

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  1. The plane which certain parties claim “does not fly” did in fact achieve stable, controlled tethered hover in September 2006.

    The military requirement for a successful test is a 30 second hover within a small virtual box. The DP-1 UAV, a 54% scale version of the larger DP-2, completed several autonomous flights of approximately 45 seconds at duPont’s El Cajon facility within a smaller envelope than the contract required.

    Images and videos of the test flights can be seen at the following link:

    http://www.dupontaero.com/DP-1/dp-1.html

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