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Dr. David Livingston

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Robert Talmage

Robert Talmage is president and founder of TAAS Company, a small design and contracting company. Robert earned a BSAE from the University of Georgia. While attending school, he also received his private pilot license. In 1986, Robert designed a hypersonic rocket transport. The concept was published in Popular Mechanics, Design News, Omni, L-5 News and later presented the design at Clayton College, Georgia during the Space Day Symposium. One aspect of the concept was to provide a first stage capability using a tow plane. This feature was adopted by Kelly Space and Technology and successfully demonstrated by NASA in 2000. Recognizing the lack of a suitable escape system for future space planes and military flight crews, TAAS began work on the “Aircraft Escape Cabin” and received a US patent in 2004. The modular escape technique offered other modular features which were of particular interest to the military. Subsequently, TAAS developed the Modular Plane which offered additional modular features for both military and conventional aircraft operations. Robert was invited to present this technology at The International Space Development Conference in 2007 and The AIAA 15th International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference in 2008.

Appeared on the following broadcasts:
#1168 - Guest: Robert Talmage. Topics: flight safety, air and spacecraft escape system, demonstrator flights, ISDC... (6/5/2009)
#1087 - Guest: Robert Talmage. Topics: Emergency escape module for aviation and rockets and ballistic recovery... (1/11/2009)

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