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39-579: Northrop Grumman received design and marketing rights from Swift Engineering to the Killer Bee , renamed the Bat in April 2009. The Bat UAS was redeveloped to increase payload carrying capacity and extend range. The latest variant has a wing span of 14 feet (4.3 m) and can carry up to 100 pounds (45 kg) of payload. The Bat "14" UAS has a maximum altitude of 17,000 feet (5.2 km) above sea level and

78-647: A Formula Libre category, which would accommodate the existing Formula Renault cars alongside those from other Formulas whose British championships had recently ended. The Renault Sport championship organised an annual regular series, supporting the British Touring Car Championship and UK round of the World Series by Renault , as well as a winter series. The regular series was the main championship and at its peak, held 20 races over 10 meetings. Originally known as Formula Renault UK

117-697: A Swift Ultra Long Endurance (SULE)  [ ja ] 30-day mission high-altitude long endurance (HALE) UAS with flight tests including 24-hrs, 48-hrs, and 7-days during the Phase 2 timeline for NASA . All operations, ground control, safety, reviews, and payload will be included in these test flights and within the proposed 2-year timeframe. Swift HALE completed its first test flight from Spaceport America in New Mexico in 2020. In 2017, Swift Engineering designed, fabricated, and delivered QTY 10, 10-ft Iridium NEXT payload adapter cylinders, and structures for

156-469: A 50 ft. XLUUV unmanned submarine. Swift Engineering is the parent of a diverse set of subsidiaries. British Formula Renault Championship British Formula Renault Championship referred to one of two Formula Renault championships that were held in the United Kingdom. The main series was Renault Sport UK 's Formula Renault 2.0 UK championship which was held from 1989 to 2011 and

195-466: A Friday testing session at each venue. This was made up of two 25 minute sessions. Saturday consisted of Two 20 minute qualifying sessions which decided the grid for the two 30 minute races, with both held either on the Sunday or the first race on Saturday afternoon and the second race on Sunday. Drivers scored points down to 20th place with two points for fastest lap. Only the best 18 results counted towards

234-407: A maximum endurance of 18 hours. On August 12, 2011, Northrop Grumman won a $ 26m contract for Sand Dragon B Tier II UAVs able to detect IEDs and roadside bombs. The blended wings merge with the fuselage into a single airfoil to reduce aerodynamic drag, improve fuel economy and increase flight endurance. Made largely of composites, including epoxy / carbon fiber and fiberglass , the airfoil

273-827: A new car for the series, using 016.a as a chassis code. Swift became the sole supplier of chassis for the Japanese Formula Nippon championship in 2009 with the 017.n chassis (also known as the FN09). An updated model called SF13 was used in 2013. The company proposed a derivative of the 017.n, the 020.I, in response to Indy Lights ' requirement for a new chassis for the 2014 season. Beginning in 1997, Swift diversified into aerospace/aviation markets, working with major companies including Northrop Grumman , Boeing , Lockheed Martin , SpaceX , Sikorsky , and others. Swift has also worked for governmental agencies such as NASA . Swift Engineering designed, built, and delivered

312-495: Is Hiro Matsushita , a former racecar driver and grandson of the founder of Panasonic , Konosuke Matsushita . Swift used to produce racing cars for open-wheel racing series including Formula Ford , Formula Atlantic , the Champ Car World Series and Formula Nippon . They company has designed and manufactured over 500 race cars. Swift is certified to AS9100 , ISO 14001 and ISO 27000 . Swift Engineering

351-581: Is a fixed-wing design and can take off and land vertically. This drone features a large wing and four propellers. Swift Engineering initially released the Swift020 model, which was primarily used for research and development purposes, and later upgraded it to the Swift021. The latest version of the drone, the Swift Crane, is a commercialized variant. In 2018 Swift proposed to design, fabricate, and fly

390-657: Is also available. The payload capabilities include still image and real-time video cameras, EO/IR and SAR sensors, Kestrel MTI , laser range finders, laser designators, infrared cameras, communication relays, IED detection, radar jamming EW , chemical and biological detection systems, psy ops , and flare dispensers. The Bat UAS can carry numerous types of payloads for collecting intelligence, including still image and real time video cameras, EO/IR and SAR sensors, laser range finders, laser designators, Infra-Red cameras, communications relay equipment, chemical, biological, and IED detection systems and flare dispensers. The Bat series

429-492: Is offered for surveillance of civil disturbances, borders, pipe- and power-lines, as well as meteorology . Data from General characteristics Performance [REDACTED] Media related to Northrop Grumman Bat at Wikimedia Commons Swift Engineering Swift Engineering is an American engineering firm that builds autonomous systems , helicopters , submarines , spacecraft , ground vehicles, robotics , and composite parts. The chairman and CEO

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468-412: Is rigid, providing a structural efficiency which reduces materials and manufacturing costs. With net hooks in the nose and a rear pusher propeller, the craft lands in a mobile retrieval net. The current Hirth engine with its five-bladed propeller provides a flight time of up to 18 hours. The Bat is designed to have a lower than average visual and radar cross-section profile. A heavy-fuel engine version

507-590: The Kobe Institute of Computing to open its first office abroad in Kobe , Japan. Since 2018, Yale physicist and executive Nick Barua has overseen management. The first Swift racecar was the DB-1 Formula Ford. The car won its debut race, the 1983 SCCA Runoffs at Road Atlanta. The DB-1 was the third car designed by Bruns and was considered to be a design simplification of Burns's previous design,

546-714: The 19th Championship organized by the British Automobile Racing Club and the second year as the UK's only premier Formula Renault 2.0 championship. The season will begin at Donington Park on 14 April and end on 29 September at Silverstone Circuit . The series will form part of the BARC club racing meetings and will expand from fourteen to sixteen rounds at six events all held in England , with four triple header events. The following teams have competed in either

585-485: The Automotive Development ADF. The car was considered a landmark design that rendered prior Formula Ford models obsolete. The DB-1 had the lowest aerodynamic drag of any Formula Ford at its release. Over 100 DB-1s were sold in the 18 months following the car's release. The car won 10 Formula Ford championships over the next 13 years. The closely related DB6 won an additional six championships with

624-519: The Formula Renault UK Championship between 1989 and 1994. Only since 2005, most of the regulations relating to the cars are the same as the UK series, but the cars have fixed gear ratios, an intake restrictor to limit engine wear, and are limited to one new set of tyres per outing. The championship used the older Formula Renault Tatuus chassis first introduced to Formula Renault racing in 2000 and updated in 2007, which makes

663-535: The UK series. Renault Sport UK also supports the BARC series. In 2000, Tatuus replaced the chassis and it pioneered the modern one make racing series that is common today in GP2 Series , GP3 Series and Formula Renault 3.5 Series . Several notable Formula One Drivers have raced in the series including Lewis Hamilton , Paul di Resta and Heikki Kovalainen but probably the biggest star from Formula Renault UK

702-768: The championship a viable prospect to drivers with lower levels of budget and funding. With the collapse of the Renault Sport championship in early 2012, the BARC Championship became the prominent Formula Renault Championship in the United Kingdom and from 2013, took the name Protyre Formula Renault Championship , dropping the BARC tag after its growth into one of the leading national single seater championships in Great Britain . Despite its initial growth, grid sizes fell in subsequent seasons, and

741-454: The championship ended in 2014. The weekend starts with a general testing session on the Friday. This was made up of two 25 minute sessions. Qualifying is held on Saturday and consists of two 20 minute sessions which decide the grid for the two 30 mile races, with both races held on the Sunday. During the 2012 season , triple header events were introduced. Qualifying for race one and two remains

780-411: The championship used engines of 1,721cc. Between 1995 and 1999 the championship was called Formula Renault Sport UK and used a 2,000cc 8V engine was used. Another name change in 2000 say the series known as Formula Renault 2000 UK before adopting Formula Renault 2.0 UK in 2005. Since 2000 the championship has used 2,000cc 16V engines. The French tyre manufacturer Michelin was the tyre supplier and

819-568: The championship with points shared out using the following system: The Protyre Formula Renault Championship, organized by the British Automobile Racing Club , began in 1995 as a secondary championship to the Renault Sport UK championship. The series was named Formula Renault BARC Championship . In 1995 and 1994, the technical regulation used by the Formula Renault BARC Championship was the one used by

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858-445: The city of Kobe, Japan on July 21, 2018. It takes off and lands like a quadrotor but transitions to efficient fixed-wing forward flight without additional launch and recovery equipment, vastly reducing operational time and cost. It has a 4-meter wingspan, 2–3 hours of endurance, and a 1.5-kg payload. The Swift Crane  [ ja ; simple ] is a VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle designed and developed by Swift Engineering. It

897-590: The development of the Sikorsky–Boeing SB-1 Defiant Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR TD), with the design and manufacturing of a significant portion of the airframe structure. In 2014, Swift started developing the Swift020 fully electric, fully autonomous VTOL UAS. This aircraft is runway-independent and transitions to horizontal flight through its autopilot software. the first UAS featuring X-blade technology, made its first fully autonomous flight demonstration in

936-694: The last one in 2008. The success of the car was considered one of the factors that resulted in the slow decline of Formula Ford in the US after 1984. In 1998, Swift became the sole supplier for the new spec regulation Toyota Atlantic Championship . In 2006, the Atlantic race series became a part of the Champ Car (formerly CART) organization and was renamed the Champ Car Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda . Swift built

975-449: The new championship. The plan was dropped after a breakdown in negotiations with Formula Renault's organisers, and the lack of demand for a new junior single-seater series in competition with the new Formula 4 class MSA Formula and BRDC Formula 4 . With the failure of the plan, the BARC also dropped their existing Formula Renault series, leaving no dedicated British Formula Renault Championship for 2015. The BARC instead planned to run

1014-400: The official name of the championship was changed to the "Formula Renault 2.0 UK Championship" in 2005. The BARC organized a second championship in 1995. From then, until 2011, two championships existed in the United Kingdom. However, the BARC championship differed from the UK championship in that it is a mainly amateur series. The BARC championship's Club Class uses old chassis previously used in

1053-796: The overall Graduate Cup winner received a discount on the entry fee for the Formula Renault 2.0 UK or Clio Cup UK championships. To be eligible to race in the Graduate Cup Class drivers had to have competed in no more than two Formula Renault 2.0 race meetings before the current season (except drivers who have previously taken part in the Formula Renault UK Winter Cup or have raced in the Formula Renault BARC Championship) and must be under 19 years of age. The weekend started with

1092-635: The runway-independent Killer Bee blended wing UAV and its mobile launch/retrieval system in 2002. Northrop Grumman bought the Killer Bee UAV product line from Swift Engineering, and renamed it as the Northrop Grumman Bat in April 2009. It has been used primarily as an ISR gathering tool, and features a 10-ft wingspan with 30-lb payload capacity. In 2007 Swift Engineering produced the prototype Eclipse 400 single-engine jet aircraft under contract to Eclipse Aviation . The aircraft

1131-469: The same, however the race three grid is decided by the second fastest time set during the second qualifying session. During triple header weekends, the first race is held on Saturday with the remaining two races held on the Sunday. Drivers score points down to 20th place with two points for fastest lap. All rounds, less one, count towards the championship with points shared out using the following system: The 2013 Protyre Formula Renault Championship will be

1170-477: The title sponsor of the series since 1992. Several notable Formula One Drivers have raced in the series including Kimi Räikkönen , Lewis Hamilton , Paul di Resta and Heikki Kovalainen . The UK Championship had a secondary class, known as the Graduate Cup. The scheme aimed to help young drivers enter the championship. The highest placed Graduate Cup driver for each round received a trophy on podium and

1209-693: Was Kimi Räikkönen , the champion in 2000, who made a successful debut in Formula One the next year. This brought keen attention to the different Formula Renault 2.0 Championships and became a chance to found new championships in Italy, Brazil and Asia. Both Räikkönen and then Hamilton went on to become Formula One World Champions in 2007 and 2008 , respectively. It then became the reference championship for any aspiring single seater driver to compete in, especially in Western Europe. In March 2012, it

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1248-492: Was announced that the Formula Renault UK series would not take place in 2012. This was due to a low number of entries to the championship after only receiving six confirmed competitors, as the price for competing for a season was reaching £200,000. Originally, it was planned by series promoter Stéphane Ratel Organisation that the championship would take a one-year hiatus, leading to a re-launch in 2013. However, it

1287-532: Was built in secrecy at NASA 's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia and first flown on 2 July 2007. Swift supplies high-strength, low-weight composite parts and assemblies to several aerospace industry customers. Engineering consultancy and designing and producing tooling for composite parts are further aspects of the business. Swift Engineering Inc. joined the Sikorsky-Boeing team in 2015 to support

1326-647: Was founded in 1983 by David Bruns, Alex Cross, R. K. Smith , and Paul White under the name Swift Racing Cars . Their first car, the DB-1, was a Formula Ford which won the SCCA National Championship in its debut race. The company later built cars for Sports 2000 , Formula Ford 2000 , Formula Atlantic , and CART . Swift chassis won the Atlantic Championship from 1989 to 1992 and British Formula Renault in 1990. In 1991, Swift

1365-710: Was generally recognized as the British Formula Renault championship. However, in March 2012 it was announced that the Formula Renault UK series would not take place in 2012, with the series being ended definitively in September 2012. A secondary championship organised by the British Automobile Racing Club and known as the Protyre Formula Renault Championship was held continuously between 1995 and 2014. The championship

1404-517: Was purchased by Panasonic executive and former Indycar racing driver Hiro Matsushita , grandson of Panasonic founder Konosuke Matsushita , who renamed the firm Swift Engineering. Under his direction, Swift moved up to the CART World Series for 1997, with two cars entered by Newman/Haas Racing and driven by Michael Andretti and Christian Fittipaldi . In CART, Swifts got four wins and 24 podiums from 182 race entries. Tarso Marques

1443-447: Was reported in the media that the series was ended definitively in September 2012. A new proposal to reintroduce Formula Renault UK was made by the BARC and motorsport promoter Grovewood in 2014. The revived series would be a two-tier championship, with the modern Tatuus FR2.0/13 being used alongside the older machines used in the BARC series. Formula Renault BARC, which had been suffering from declining grid sizes, would be absorbed into

1482-479: Was the last driver to race a Swift chassis in CART in the 2000 season. In 2000, Swift Engineering started to provide vertically integrated, multi-disciplined product development services including design, development, engineering, testing, and rapid manufacturing of prototypes, demonstrators, and pre-production articles. In 2018, Swift Engineering formed a joint venture, Swift Xi Inc.  [ ja ; fr ] , with

1521-431: Was the only Formula Renault 2.0 championship operating in the United Kingdom after the demise of the main series, but was ended after the 2014 season. The "British Formula Renault Championship", was founded by the British Automobile Racing Club (BARC) in 1989. Renault Sport UK took over the organization of the championship from the following year. This championship was recognized as "British Formula Renault", although

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