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Join Us For Dinner with Bill Welsh and Mike Robbins

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Topic: Dragonfly: Bringing Vertical Flight to Saturn’s Moon Titan, an Organic Ocean World

Date:  Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Schedule: 

Social Hour: 5:30 pm
Dinner: 6:15 pm
Speaker: 7:00pm

Location: Blackhawk Country Club 

385 Oronoque Ln, Stratford, CT 06614

Visit the Blackhawk Country Club Website

Cost:  Member $35 ($40 No RSVP) / Non-Member $40 ($45 No RSVP)

Price includes dinner.

The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) is leading a NASA program to explore Titan. Sikorsky, Lockheed Martin Space and Penn State are providing JHUAPL with Aeromechanics, Aerodynamics, Design and Ground Test support for the Dragonfly Rotorcraft Lander. The Dragonfly Lander is an 8-rotor, autonomous vehicle that weighs over 2,100 lbs on Earth but only 300 lbs on Titan. It is electrically powered and can navigate autonomously over the dunes of Titan using Lidar and Navigation Cameras. The vehicle carries a suite of scientific equipment, including a drill and mass spectrometer, to explore the prebiotic chemistry of Titan.

TO RSVP:
Please email Olivia Ivaldi at vfs.stratford.sec@gmail.com

Vertiflite Magazine

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Vertiflite magazine is the official publication of the Vertical Flight Society, the professional organization working for the advancement of vertical flight technology and its useful application throughout the world. Vertiflite’s editorial energies are devoted to informing our readers of the advances being made in the industry and encouraging increasingly broader use of vertical flight aircraft.

Vertiflite is included with VFS membership. It is also available to non-members by subscription for $250 per year. Single issues are also available for $50 for non-members (shipping included). Vertiflite is published six times a year.

Learn more about Vertiflite here!

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