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Romanian IAR-111 supersonic plane Excelsior has completed the cab structure. See how it looks

Cosmonautics and Aeronautics Romanian Association - ARCA completed supersonic airplane cabin structure Excelsior IAR-111, a device designed to launch space rocket Haas II for Google Lunar X Prize competition and development of space tourism, according to a press release AFP.

Airplane cabin is made of composite materials, weighs 500 pounds fully equipped for flight and receives a two-person crew - pilot and navigator - arranged in tandem.

The pilot, seated in the front seat cabin, will have a center console which includes analog and GPS navigation equipment, a widescreen HDTV system to assist take off and landing, and radio equipment will be located on the sides. Cupra will be equipped with controls needed to handle the aircraft.

Navigator seated behind the pilot will have on the center console of an integrated monitoring operating parameters of the aircraft, radio communication system, GPS navigation system, a system for monitoring aircraft SDTV and passive radar screen.

Cabin is ejected when necessary and is equipped with two missile engine powered parachutes.

"Making the cabin structure IAR-111 Excelsior is an important moment for the team and its partners, is one of the most difficult of all aircraft. During the next booth will be subject to intensive ground and flight testing , pressure tests are performed and mechanical overload and vibration. After completing these tests, the cab will be equipped with avionics and systems will be integrated into the aircraft structure, "said Dumitru Popescu, ARCA president.

Thus, ARCA will perform during the July-August mission in June, testing the flight cabin IAR-111, as representatives of the Association told AFP. "The exact date depends on when they give approval authorities for testing. Mission 6 is testing the flight cabin. It will be thrown from a helicopter to test the acceleration and the parachute recovery system. To see if this system is operational It is powered by two missiles. "The aim is to first recover the car safely. It is a simple test, "explained representatives of ARCA. They have not revealed where the flight will be testing the IAR-111 cab.

IAR-111 supersonic plane Excelsior is made exclusively with private sources. ARCA decided not to report the value of the program yet.

First flight of supersonic aircraft is scheduled for autumn 2012.

Cosmonautics and Aeronautics Romanian Association (ARCA) is an NGO that wants to win Google Lunar X Prize competition and to launch the first space rocket capable of carrying a Romanian cosmonaut.

ARCA announced on December 22, 2010, in a press conference, a program that worked in secret last year, aimed at achieving the first Romanian high-altitude supersonic plane that will launch rocket Haas II, the Google Lunar X Prize competition.

The aircraft was designed to replace the bearing balloons used so far ARCA necessary transport rocket vehicles above the atmosphere. Carrying balloons were a cheap and quick solution, but also showed the limits, the main cause for two successive delays launch of space rocket Helen.

In that press conference was told that the ship will be able to fly supersonic speed of Mach 1.5 at altitudes of 16,000 meters, in the case of Haas II rocket, and for use as a platform to develop technologies for space tourism will develop speeds of Mach 2.6 at altitudes of 30,000 feet.

Typical flight sequence of this device includes taking off from the sea surface, horizontal acceleration performance of a flight, high subsonic speeds by, followed by rapid rise in about two minutes, to an altitude of 16,000 feet. At this altitude, the plane will issue Haas II rocket, which will follow its flight schedule. Supersonicul without payload becomes caught, will return to plan the sea surface.

The plane will have a crew of two people - the pilot and navigator - and will become the first Romanian supersonic plane. Airplane cabin is separate and is equipped with two powered parachutes own rocket. Thus, the airplane cabin is separated from the aircraft at speeds of Mach 0 to 1.2 and height of 100 meters and can bring the crew safely on the sea surface. Propulsion will be provided by a liquid rocket engine, operating with hydrogen peroxide and kerosene. Geometric and mass data are not communicated device.

Among the programs developed at ARCA Demonstrator 2B rocket and are equipped with the world's first engine, composite materials, reusable, which was launched successfully on 9 September 2004, the Black Sea coast, the system has executed Stabilo two flights so far, a mission launched to an altitude of 14,700 m in the stratosphere, and 2 mission launched in 2007 at an altitude of 12,000 feet above the Black Sea.

However, ARCA launched on October 1, 2010, the first Romanian space rocket, Helen 2, the Black Sea, thus making the first flight of the Google Lunar X Prize competition, which aims at sending a robot on the lunar surface by a private organization. Helen suborbital rocket technology is demonstrated for Google Lunar X Prize competition. Helen's flight test was postponed twice in 2009 (Mission 3) and 2010 (Mission 4) because of difficulties in launching the ball carrier. To test the avionics Helen, ARCA released from Sânpetru in early 2010, Mission 5. Successful launch of first space rocket Romanian, Helen 2, Mission 4 B, was held on October 1, 2010, off the Black Sea and reached an altitude of 40,000 feet.

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