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>>Welcome to the CAS showcase.
>>CAS is new, we were created to help ARMD make wise decisions,
in what will be the next generation of investments that we are gonna do.
>>Our stakeholders have challenged us with developing cost-effective flight research vehicles
to demonstrate innovative aerospace technology in flight.
>>Can we bring 100 years of aeronautics knowledge to the new entrepreneur's desktop with a
Design Environment for Vertical Lift Vehicles?
>>Can we fly a new aircraft design, never having obtained any wind tunnel data at all?
Can you get to a flight? Can you design the control system?
Can you do everything just based purely on flight data?
>>Our basic concept is to combine super-capacitor and battery chemistries in one device
to create high power density and high specific energy.
>>This will be the first manned x-plane with distributed electric propulsion technology.
It'll be fully electric with zero in-flight emissions.
>>We believe that this novel air structure concept can potentially change how the future air vehicle
will be designed, and built, and flown.
>>Can we merge a revolutionary concept in material manufacturing with long-standing aeronautics
challenges for the next generation of air vehicles?
>>The CAS world is a little bit different than things I've worked on in the past
>>The time has come and NASA's stakeholders have challenged NASA to push those technologies
out of the laboratory, off of the computer desktop, and out of the wind tunnel, and into vehicles
so those technologies can be validated.
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>>CAS, it starts with an idea, a concept, that has to have five characteristics:
One, that it's targeted.
It's targeted. It's convergent. It's transformative. Rapid execution.
And finally, we are a technology evaluation, we are not a technology development.
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