The Zephyr is a series of high-altitude platform station aircraft produced by Airbus. They were designed originally by QinetiQ, a commercial offshoot of...
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QinetiQ 1 was a balloon designed to set a new world altitude record for manned balloon flight of around 40 km (25 miles, 132,000 feet). The balloon was...
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Cost Model (OSCAM) Q-Net a armour attachment. QinetiQ 1 QinetiQ Banshee (purchased from Meggitt in 2016) Qinetiq Mercator Zephyr (sold to Airbus in 2013)...
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Meggitt's target drone subsidiary, Meggitt Target Systems, was sold to QinetiQ for £57.5 million and versions of the drone are now simply named after...
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Look up Zephyr, Zéphyr, zephyr, zephyrs, or zéphyr in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In European tradition, a zephyr is a light wind or a west wind,...
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8 January 2015. "QinetiQ's Zephyr UAV exceeds official world record for longest duration unmanned flight" (Press release). QinetiQ. 10 September 2007...
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The Q-NET is an add-on armor kit developed by QinetiQ to counter the threat of rocket-propelled grenades. The Q-Net is an armor system that stands off...
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RV Triton (section DERA and QinetiQ)
demonstrator for the UK's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (later QinetiQ). She was built as a technology demonstrator ship for the Royal Navy's...
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Qinetiq Mercator 1 is a joint British/Belgian remote sensing system utilising a modified version of the Qinetiq Zephyr High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE)...
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reconnaissance to combat. It is made by the American robotics company QinetiQ-NA, a subsidiary of QinetiQ. Foster-Miller claims the TALON is one of the fastest robots...
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This is a list of aircraft in alphabetical order beginning with 'Q'. QinetiQ Zephyr Qingting-5 Qingting-6 (Gaston Quaissard) Quaissard GQ.01 Monogast (UL...
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firm, QinetiQ - and "RDERA" ( "retained" in Government DERA) - becoming the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). At the split, QinetiQ was...
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six months. It broke up in flight in 2003. Airbus Zephyr The Zephyr were originally designed by QinetiQ, a commercial offshoot of the UK Ministry of Defence...
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of the MoD, with approximately two-thirds of it being incorporated into QinetiQ, a commercial company owned by the MoD, and the remainder into the fully...
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Chief Executive of the enlarged DERA (split in July 2001 into DSTL and QinetiQ).[citation needed] "Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) and its...
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UAV set a world record for flight at 29,524 m (96,864 ft). Qinetiq Zephyr – built by Qinetiq, this UAV set the unofficial world record for longest duration...
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Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), and the privatised company QinetiQ. Aircraft The unit used various aircraft such as : Hawker Hunter, English...
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same design. A number of electrically powered aircraft, such as the QinetiQ Zephyr, have been designed since the 1960s. Some are used as military drones...
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time without needing to land. It had 20 motors of the same type as the Qinetiq Zephyr designed by Newcastle University. Boeing was awarded an $89 million...
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MOD Boscombe Down (category Qinetiq)
outskirts of the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. The site is managed by QinetiQ, the private defence company created as part of the breakup of the Defence...
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flight, on energy stored in the batteries mounted on the aircraft. The QinetiQ Zephyr is a lightweight solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). As of...
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... at 1440 BST (0640 local time) on Friday, 9 July QinetiQ Group PLC (n.d.). "Zephyr - QinetiQ High-Altitude Long-Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle...
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Boldon James (category Qinetiq)
October 2007, Boldon James was acquired as an autonomous subsidiary of Qinetiq a major UK plc and FTSE 250 company, who took over the company from previous...
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Bedfordshire. It is currently the world's-largest aircraft. QinetiQ Zephyr, a HALE UAV developed by QinetiQ. In July 2010, it made the world's longest recorded...
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Military Vehicles and Engineering Establishment (category Qinetiq)
Christchurch sites were among those allocated to Qinetiq when DERA was broken up in 2001 with the intention that Qinetiq would be privatised, which happened in...
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RAE Bedford (category Qinetiq)
of its development work (under the banner of QinetiQ from mid-2001 onwards). As of early 2007, QinetiQ have sold their remaining stake in the Bedford...
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Federation. 2021-09-30. Retrieved 2022-08-25. "QinetiQ HALE team (GBR) (16052)". FAI. 23 Jul 2010. "QinetiQ HALE team (GBR) (16053)". FAI. 23 Jul 2010. "Platform...
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Wiltshire, where its work continues following privatisation as part of the Qinetiq company. In 1917, the Experimental Aircraft Flight of the Central Flying...
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PyTEC is a containerised Pyrolysis Waste Disposal System designs by QinetiQ and used in various military applications. The system converts waste products...
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PSivida (category Qinetiq)
government Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA, now QinetiQ).[citation needed] QinetiQ continues to be a strategic partner. In June 2004, pSivida...
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