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Friday, June 22, 2007

QinetiQ conducts rolling Harrier landing trials on French carrier

QinetiQ's VAAC Harrier undertakes payload boosting landing trials on the French carrier Charles de Gaulle as part of a JSF-programme

QinetiQ and the MOD Joint Test and Evaluation Group, which comprise the UK Aircraft Test and Evaluation Centre, are currently undertaking a series of landing trials of a short take-off vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft on to the French Navy's Charles de Gaulle carrier, using QinetiQ's Vectored-thrust Aircraft Advanced Control (VAAC) experimental Harrier.

Undertaken as part of the US Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme on behalf of the UK MOD Joint Combat Aircraft Integrated Project Team (JCA IPT), the trials were designed to expand the limits and knowledge of ship rolling vertical landings (SRVL) as a possible aircraft recovery technique for the Royal Navy's two projected Future Carrier (CVF) vessels.

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