• Nose Art: Icarus

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    ICARUS (8/3/57)

    On August 3, 1957, VGL engineers James Boyle and Arthur Winthrop designed a glider with a titanium frame and silk body. Pilot/explorer Eric Albertson dubbed the craft ICARUS after he flew the glider to 76,845 feet above the mountains of southern Angola, the world’s altitude record for an unpowered aircraft. To honor this achievement, Albertson dubbed a UFT 2D pod ICARUS II when he made his first VGL translocation to BattleTech in 1965, a mission from which he never returned.

    ICARUS II: Type: UFT 2D
    Commissioned: March 1965
    Mission on Solaris VII, 1965
    ICARUS III: Type: System 3.0
    Commissioned: August, 1994

     

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