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27/03/24

This evening was our Performing Arts Spring Showcase. There were so many talents on display. Well done to everyone that was involved today!🎺🎷🎸🎤🎻 pic.twitter.com/CtYcfeYPkn

27/03/24

Great to see the fantastic Y12 Jazz ensemble progressing thanks to the brilliant work of teachers Mike Rogers and Seb Marlow. Huge thanks also to for your work with our students🥇! what do you think? pic.twitter.com/TUNxrXKVUC

27/03/24

Harris Greenwich Vacancies😀 https://t.co/M5hChMTDRh

21/03/24

The NYJO Learning team is delivering a first-access project – Sound Foundations – in partnership with two local schools in Southeast London: and 🎷🎺https://t.co/Bav9m4j0u0 pic.twitter.com/b1rL3LQS0S

17/03/24

‘Red Nose Doodle Day’ is underway @ HAGR. Students creating red nose doodles for comic relief. If you want to donate please visit: https://t.co/VUJ0bu9bxJ  Thank you pic.twitter.com/vbpMRHFFzt

16/03/24

Our Year 9s getting stuck into their GCSE taster sessions. pic.twitter.com/iUMNjCq1kM

09/03/24

“HAGR celebrated World Book Day this year by having an author – Sonia Leong – come to visit. Sonia was doing workshops with students in Y7-Y10 through out the day where students had the chance to draw their own Manga characters. 📖📕 pic.twitter.com/9EUBUZR913

05/03/24

Year 7 Netball Team won their game against Harris Falconwood today. Happy faces all round. Well Done Girls🏐🏐 pic.twitter.com/O6M3oORivz

03/03/24

Our students cashing in on their positive points. Hard Work Pays Off🚀🏀⚽️🎻#REWARDSYSTEM pic.twitter.com/1KLd4a4PQ5

01/03/24

Our Year 11s in their after school Maths Booster on a Friday. #GCSEMOCKEXAMS 📚🧑‍🎓 pic.twitter.com/hNmI49aX8e

29/02/24

Well done to our four year 8 students who were selected by their peers to be apart of our school council 💥🚀👏🏽 pic.twitter.com/rH9APJFT9o

25/02/24

Year 10 taking  part in a Talent Foundry Careers Workshop. Students were able to develop their transferable skills, communication, and leadership. pic.twitter.com/jqTvZpQqrG

21/02/24

Our students attended a physical theatre workshop, inspired by the play TESS, using sticks to build and explore landscapes, creating striking imagery and working on precise transitions. pic.twitter.com/K3JhTLxaFe

20/02/24

What a start to the term having our amazing Jazz students performing last night 🎹🤩! Thank you for this fantastic opportunity! pic.twitter.com/pAWjz0sZSU

20/02/24

What a start to the term having our amazing Jazz students performing last night 🎹🤩! Thank you for this fantastic opportunity! pic.twitter.com/pAWjz0sZSU

01/02/24

Our year 8s smashing their interviews with the president and vice president of the student council🍾😀😀 pic.twitter.com/pnVggcj0Gu

01/02/24

Another week, Another Year 7 assembly 🚀💥 pic.twitter.com/Jpq3YO51Bc

29/01/24

"Author and Journalist, gave a talk on his best selling book 'Africa is Not a Country'. Dipo enlightened our students on the technological advances of Africa  and incredible natural resources, before the 'Scramble for Africa' interrupted its history. pic.twitter.com/HasqtOtcUk

26/01/24

Our Student Council Process has begun!! Congratulation for progressing into the final round. All the best 🧑‍🎓 👨‍🎓 🚀. ##StudentVoice pic.twitter.com/axnEJDLX3E

26/01/24

Ending lunch time on a high 🎤 🎹 🎶 pic.twitter.com/fR1yoHYyQm

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Cuttlefish Single Stage to Orbit Space Plane

Description

Cuttlefish is a lifting body design, powered by two ducted turbo fans and an Estes solid rocket motor. It is designed to take off like an ordinary aircraft, fly as a normal aircraft to a given height. Cuttlefish then, makes its way into orbit powered by a rocket motor. On its return journey back to Earth, after re-entry it then re-ignites its jet engines and flies back to its base.Cuttlefish, as a model of the space plane, is controlled in two ways. It is flown by a human pilot via remote control while in the jet flight phase and while in range of the radio transmitter. During the rocket phase it is flown by its on-board auto pilot (based on a PICAXE board) with (either non mercury tilt switches or a gyro/accelerometer chip) and an SFR005 ultrasonic range finder to navigate the vehicle back into range. The system will also be capable of landing Cuttlefish unaided.Other aspects of Cuttlefish will be controlled by the PICAXE system including deploying the landing gear and automatically igniting the rocket motor. Cuttlefish's target altitude is a maximum of 2000 feet (the maximum allowed by the CAA).

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Possible Cuttlefish airframe variants

 

The team realised that a smaller 'drone' version of the airframe, with simplified electronics/guidance systems, carrying a cargo of water purifiers, military ration packs, simple emergency shelters, air launched from military cargo aircraft, could carry immediate aid, by air into sites of disaster such as earthquake zones etc. to provide rapid aid to areas that cannot be easily accessed due to the disaster. 

 

 

Competitions and appearances

 

2015 entry into Big Bang Near Me Fair

 

 

Project Pipeline

 

The development of Cuttlefish is listed by prototype, below:

 

Mk I - VIII Cuttlefish

Various card and paper built designs for lifting bodies. some designs flew with varying success.

 

Mk IX Cuttlefish

First balsa built version, as a blended wing design including canards. Flew well

 

Mk X - XIII

Second, larger balsa/polystyrene versions each mark with varying control surfaces and positions. These versions of Cuttlefish are true lifting bodies and do not require stub wings or canards to fly.

 

Mk XIV

First full up weight version with rocket motor mount. Flew moderately well.

 

Mk XV Cuttlefish (current version)

Design change to a facet style lifting body, First to attempt powered flight using EDF propulsion.

 

 

 Cuttlefish requires funding to allow further development.

 

Further marks of Cuttlefish will have:

  • A larger, lightweight strengthened balsa/polystyrene fuselage.
  • On board PICAXE autopilot.
  • Gyro/accelerometer chip
  • Ultrasonic height detection.
  • EDF/Solid rocket propulsion.
  • On board rocket flight ignition and control.
  • Automatically deployable landing gear controlled by the ultrasonic system.
  • On board Wireless camera.

Estimated cost for these enhancements:

£700.00