Spy without pilots

1990/07/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Ingeniaritza

The mission of the plane called "Condor" is to send from the air the domestic information of the enemy. The flights are scheduled to a plane that walks very high without pilots. Thanks to the camera and the built-in transmission system, it sends the images without any delay. This is an indispensable condition, among other things, for the monitoring of the missiles.

It can be said that it is a new generation "U-2" aircraft, but it has the advantage of not having pilots. It is very wide (61 meters) and by the aerodynamic form of the wings consumes very little fuel. This means that at 20,000 meters of altitude it can circulate for 60 uninterrupted hours. In addition, it has a carbon fiber structure and is very difficult to detect with radar. It has propelled propellers of almost five meters of diameter, each driven by a turbocompression piston engine.