David Stewart, the head of flight sciences, previously worked for a supplier of one part for Airbus.
In 1961 he took an aeronautics degree at the US Naval Postgraduate School and three years later a doctorate in flight sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"All you're doing is running wires to motors," says Carl Schaefer of Aurora Flight Sciences, an aerospace company developing an electric drone called Lightning Strike for the US military.
Apt worked with Keith and Aurora Flight Sciences, a US company that develops drone aircraft technology for the US military, to study the costs of sending 1m tonnes of sulphate particles into the upper atmosphere a year.
A study that Dr Keith commissioned from Aurora Flight Sciences, a Virginia-based company that makes high-altitude drones, concludes that it could be done by an operation smaller than an airline like Jet Blue, operating from a few bases around the world.That airline would, however, do best with a fleet of newly designed aircraft.
Aurora Flight Sciences is a company working on making full-scale autonomous combat craft a reality, and now some of its work is ready for prime time.
In any case, they've checked out a few designs and the one they contracted for (from Aurora Flight Sciences) has unfortunately not been photographed.
Aurora Flight Sciences has been developing its LightningStrike XV-24A vertical take-off and landing craft, an autonomous military aircraft that is being funded by DARPA and the USAF.
In November 2007, shortly after Brown retired from the Army, he joined the board of directors for Aurora Flight Sciences, which specializes in the scientific and military applications of robotic aircraft and aerospace vehicles.
The investigation, first reported by the New York Times, follows investigations by Inside Climate News and the Los Angeles Times which revealed the company for decades disregarded the findings of its own top-flight science.
It is, rather, an element of doing top-flight science.
