Question about BAe Robot-X

[hesham]

Hi,

I found this BAe Robot-X in google books,what is this.

http://books.google.com.eg/books?id=bSq-cEf0EWsC&pg=PA180&dq=nasa+vtol+aircraft&hl=ar&ei=OdNrTK6VNoyVOJCHzVs&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=true

[flateric]

first, British Aerospace (BAe) and Canadian Bristol Aerospace are quite different species
second, third, why Google is not so popular again?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=bristol+aerospace+robot-x#hl=en&q=bristol+aerospace+%22robot-x%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=8631cdd35a4d476d

->

http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/john-rooney/16/1b8/669
http://www.uavs.ca/outreach/HistoryUAVs.pdf

Defence Research Establishment Suffield
In 1979, under the auspices of the Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP), a joint US/Canadian feasibility
study was undertaken to improve the US Army Ballistic Aerial Target System (BATS) using Canadian
developed CRV-7 rocket motors. The TTCP program culminated in a vehicle known as ROBOT-5 standing
for “Rocket Boosted Target.” Defence Research Establishment Suffield (DRES) later initiated a program for
both 7 and 9 motor configurations and later developed ROBOT-9.
By 1984 DRES had developed a number of aerial test platforms including:
• ROBOT-9
• ROBOT-5
• TATS-102
• Twin-HULK
• R2P2
ROBOT-5 and ROBOT-9 were proven to be very effective and extremely low-cost, high-speed target drones.
Following their success, DRES began the proof-of-concept development of a winged, rocket-boosted, multistaged
target that was named Robot-X.
The Robot-X drone, designed for travel at high-subsonic speeds, was able to maintain a low altitude hold,
manoeuvre along a pre-programmed path, and have a range greater than 37 kilometres. Wind tunnel tests
were conducted in 1982 and the forward-wing, canard-configured, drone’s design was frozen.