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Carter Aviation Technologies Media Archive

The following are progress updates listed by date, with the most recent first.

2008-08-04 e - Carter Announces Partners in Technology

2008-08-04 d - Carter PAV Estimated Performance Numbers

2008-08-04 c - Carter PAV Nears Completion

2008-08-04 b - Carter Appoints New VP and Adds Staff

2008-08-04 a - Carter Photo Captions - AirVenture 2008

2007-04-13 b - Carter Announces Change to R&D Philosophy

2007-04-13 a - Carter Releases New PAV Designs

2007-01-11 - CarterGyro Achieves Amazing Vertical Take-offs

2006-03-31 - "Carter FutureFlight-I" to Take to the Air

2005-06-17 - The CarterCopter Breaks the μ-1 Barrier!

2004-05-14 - CarterCopter Experiences In Flight Fire

2004-04-04 d - U.S. Army Awards Carter Data Collection Contract

2004-04-04 c - Carter Receives NASA STTR Award for a Personal Air Vehicle Design

2004-04-04 b - Carter is Testing Landing Gear for Licensing

2004-04-04 a - The CarterCopter is Back in the Air!

2003-12-01 - Carter Unveils Firefighting Heliplane

2003-11-07 - Carter Announces DARPA Contract

2003-10-08 - Carter Puts μ-1 Barrier Attempt on Hold

2003-10-06 - CarterCopter Rebuilding Update

2003-05-16 - OSAC to Partner with Carter to Restore the CCTD

2003-04-14 - Flight Tests Superb - Unfortunate Ending

2002-12-03 - New High-Mu Rotor Passes First Round of Testing

2002-09-02 - Oshkosh 2002

2002-07-19 - CarterCopter Technology Demonstrator will be at Oshkosh

2002-06-12 - Dual flight controls and automated rotor system

2002-03-30 - CCTD Exceeds  NASA Goal of  MU 0.8

2002-02-16 - Flight Envelope Expands to a Mu of 0.69

2002-01-17 - CarterCopters Receives Propeller Patents

2001-12-13 - New Flight Records Set

2001-11-21 - Flight-testing Status Update

2001-10-05 - Failure of Modified Propeller Leads to Design Improvement

2001-08-10 - Spinner Bracket Failure Causes Emergency Landing

2001-08-09 - Airventure 2001

2001-07-22 - Progress Continues: New Records

2001-07-12 - Record Flights Limited Only by On-board Fuel

2001-07-03 - Military-Style Program Pays Dividends: Additional 11 ½ Days of Progress

2001-05-30 - Persistence Leads to Breakthrough: New Takeoff and Landing Procedures Developed

2001-03-28 - Incident Occurs During Weekend Testing

2001-03-02 - Additional Test Pilots Sign on with CarterCopters

2000-12-21 - Good News - Bad News

2000-11-20 - CarterCopter Achieves Its First Zero Roll Take-Off

2000-10-26 - CarterCopter Resuming Flight Testing

2000-07-13 - CarterCopter Re-assembly and Final Testing

2000-06-12 - Repair, improvements & component testing nearing completion

2000-02-24 - Status of repairs and improvements

1999-12-23 - Accident (Too much collective)

1999-11-23 - 6 days of flying

1999-10-11 - Corvette LS1 engine installation

1999-08-23 - More V6 engine problems

1999-06-11 - 1st flight pattern, unloaded rotor 50%, engine problem

1999-05-17 - 3 delays

1999-04-05 - 2 days flying. No nose extension. Best STOL to date.

1999-03-03 - Flight at Sheppard AFB. 3 Days. Low HP, failed muffler

1999-02-09 - Best flights to date, 2 hrs. flying, new control

1999-01-28 - New control, rotor blade weave during ground tests

1998-11-18 - 13 runway passes. Problem with hydraulic controls - Final straw

1998-11-04 - 1st flight after accident. Rotor blade dogleg eliminated. Stick forces OK.

1998-09-24 - 1st flights, then accident

1998-08-25 - 1st taxi tests, prop counter weight arm came off

1998-08-14 - Aircraft mechanically & electrically complete

1998-06-03 - Aircraft painted & mechanically complete