Page 8 of World SkyCat Brochure by World SkyCat Ltd

skykitten to demonstrate the new technology a fully working model at one-sixth linear scale has been built at atg s manufacturing facility at cardington uk the historic home of the british airship industry on 23rd july 2000 this craft made its first flight a new aircraft type was born this vehicle dubbed the skykitten proved the key features of the new technology aerodynamically highly stable with low drag and full stol/vtol capability the skykitten demonstrated its ability to take off and land equally on land and water to manoeuvre with total control and autonomy and to anchor itself in suckdown mode without need of any ground personnel or equipment the first skycat-20 is currently under construction and is scheduled for first flight in 2nd-quarter 2002 and full certification by end-2002 production work on the skycat-220 has already begun with the first vehicle in this range due to be available in mid-2003 initial design work on the skycat-1000 is under way with production scheduled to commence in early 2005 8

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