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03/10/24

It was great to have Jamie McCreddie& join the BARE team last week . We had a special afternoon with students from & taking part in a massed instrumental workshop & performance. pic.twitter.com/nvVfs7vrX0

27/09/24

Rainy day, library is the place to be. Catching our students reading ☔️ 📖 ☺️ pic.twitter.com/0ZUakMLr8y

24/08/24

Hard work pays off, congratulations to our year 11 students, GCSE Results Day.😀😀#Class2024 pic.twitter.com/2hj7DxlxF5

15/08/24

A fantastic set of results for our wonderful sixth formers! We are so proud of you all ❤️.Another year of excellence for Harris Academy Greenwich Sixth Form 🙌#Class2024😀 pic.twitter.com/zZEa23WqaY

18/07/24

Today was our first ever Summer Fair. Students had an opportunity to engage in numerous of activities. ⚽️ 🧽 🪣 pic.twitter.com/bemweFf7Em

18/07/24

Today was the end of our Year 12s work experience placement at partnership has provided endless amount of opportunities for our students. pic.twitter.com/NDnhrJVkmf

18/07/24

Today we hosted our end of year KS3 Pizza Party, celebrating the bright spots and acknowledging these students hard work throughout the academic year. 👩‍🎓🏆😁 pic.twitter.com/eLOdSdO6O6

16/07/24

A lovely day out ☀️ 🚆 📖 pic.twitter.com/B2DurDbmZd

16/07/24

Who said the mind cannot be challenged outside the classroom 🙌🙌 pic.twitter.com/iMUcSjCXrC

16/07/24

Today was our Learning Beyond Curriculum Day. Our Year 7s was offsite today at the National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory. Happy train journey 🙌😀 pic.twitter.com/XOKv27ZBN0

16/07/24

Well done to our athletes who took part in the Harris Athletic Sports Day Final.🏆🥇🚨 pic.twitter.com/hL862YzTjr

15/07/24

Future sporting champions 🏆🥇😀Always a pleasure hosting you. https://t.co/MWmemIW9hJ

15/07/24

Well done to our athletes who took part in the Harris Athletic Sports Day Final.🥇🥇🏆 pic.twitter.com/vd3ie5B9YC

15/07/24

Today’s Year 7 Achievement Assembly.Well done to you all, first year of secondary school almost completed.🏆 🥇🚨 pic.twitter.com/TaVYD7MRlS

13/07/24

What a lovely day, our students were engaged, educated and inspired 👮 🚨🚓. Thank you https://t.co/RVK0K4cpnW

13/07/24

Good music and excellent performances.What a vibrant evening 🎺🎷🎸🎹 https://t.co/AVkUQE5j3P

06/07/24

This year Bedrock Champions were rewarded for completing their literacy homework with an exciting trip to the British Library. The highlight was the "Treasures" exhibition, showcasing marvels from Shakespeare's originals to 2000-year-old homework placards. 📖 📕 pic.twitter.com/hniivDqYyh

06/07/24

Yesterday we commemorated 3 years since losing Tamim Habimana. We miss you and will always remember your vibrant and energetic character! pic.twitter.com/EQeh4Czgb1

05/07/24

Year 8 Assembly this morning focused on the general election. It’s important that we educate our students on the power of their future votes! 🗳️ pic.twitter.com/1hqAPAgK9H

01/07/24

Our students took part in the Harris regional heats' sports day at Sutcliffe park. The heats are held to determine if the athletes will compete at Crystal Palace stadium and ultimately represent the school against all other Harris secondaries. Great performances today🥇🏆😀 pic.twitter.com/QGJvLlrNHx

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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