JP Aerospace Blog

Away 42 was the last of the Toshiba Chair flights.

Ed building the base of the upgraded crew module mock up.

Drew cutting foam squares that will be then be hot wired into to disks. The disks are part of the end caps for air beams for the new Dark Sky Station and Jelly Fish balloon. On the table next to him is the core of the first test quad engine.

Anthony is busy making a second set of mini rocket launch boxes for an upcoming Away mission.

Paul diligently sewing weight pockets for the tandem launch bag.

We picked up the Sky Pup last month in South Carolina. After an epic drive ahead of all the blizzards she’s now in the JPA shop. The Sky Pup service several purposes: spotter plane, training vehicle and research tool. She has an all foam structure cover in aircraft fabric. Prefect for JPA! The design has many high strength, extreme light weight aspects that bear study. She cruses at 55mph and this model has been flown to 18,000 feet.

We’re building a hard deck on the top of the wing to add a ballistic parachute, installing a altimeter and a tail wheel.

Jean Justeau has been a JPA team member for over 26 years.  Jean is the artist in resident of the Dark Sky Station. This beautiful work is called Ascender Rising.

Just what we do on Saturdays.

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Here’s the basic structures for Away 43, 44 and 45.  Two of these high racks are destine for another TV commercial and the third is for a small rocket launch system.  All will be PongSat carriers.

Today we’re putting carbon edges on ten foam decks. These are going into five high racks, our standard platform. We’re starting to build vehicles in small production runs instead of one at a time. I can’t wait till we start doing that with Ascenders.