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Aviation Program

  • Kenji Yoshida  D-SEND (Drop test for Simplified Evaluation of Non-symmetrically Distributed sonic boom)
  • Masatoshi Harigae  DREAMS (Distributed and Revolutionarily Efficient Air-traffic Management System)

Kenji Yoshida  D-SEND (Drop test for Simplified Evaluation of Non-symmetrically Distributed sonic boom)

D-SEND #2
D-SEND #2

Overview of the D-SEND project
Overview of the D-SEND project

Q. If you compare the current status of your mission to mountaineering,

where are you now on the mountain?
  • near the foot
  • halfway up the mountain
  • close to the top
  • other
how is the path you are climbing now?
  • slow ascent
  • steep ascent
  • descent
  • other
what is the weather like up there?
  • sunny
  • cloudy
  • rainy
  • stormy
  • other

Q. People, time, things: which of these would you like more of? Place in order of preference.

People, time, things

Q. What aspect of your mission do you want people to take note of? What is the selling point of your mission?

Flight demonstration of the world’s first low-sonic-boom design technology for reducing the sonic boom produced by a fuselage.

Q. What is your priority in management?

Communication and information-sharing among the project team.

Q. What is your favorite genre of books? Do you have a favorite book?

Physics books, especially on elementary particle theories. Juryoku towa nanika by Hiroshi Ooguri

Q. What is your motto, or favorite saying?

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Q. Do you have a message for visitors to this website?

Please visit this website to learn about our D-SEND project.

Related link: D-SEND (Drop test for Simplified Evaluation of Non-symmetrically Distributed sonic boom)

Masatoshi Harigae  DREAMS (Distributed and Revolutionarily Efficient Air-traffic Management System)

Q. If you compare the current status of your mission to mountaineering,

where are you now on the mountain?
  • near the foot
  • halfway up the mountain
  • close to the top
  • other
how is the path you are climbing now?
  • slow ascent
  • steep ascent
  • descent
  • other
what is the weather like up there?
  • sunny
  • cloudy
  • rainy
  • stormy
  • other

Q. People, time, things: which of these would you like more of? Place in order of preference.

People (collaboration with researchers as well as those who have close linkages with external organizations), time, things

Q. What aspect of your mission do you want people to take note of? What is the selling point of your mission?

The fact that this mission can contribute to society not with things (hard) but with concepts (soft).

Q. What is your priority in management?

To have the project members always aware of sharing our outcomes with society.

Q. What is your favorite genre of books? Do you have a favorite book?

Stories with logic, fantasy, and a touching ending.
My recent favorite book is Boku no major spoon by Mizuki Tsujimura.

Q. What is your motto, or favorite saying?

You learn from your mistakes.

Q. Do you have a message for visitors to this website?

I would like to serve society as a researcher. I would like to make DREAMS a project that saves lives.

Related link: DREAMS (Distributed and Revolutionarily Efficient Air-traffic Management System)

  • Space Transportation Systems
  • Earth Observation
  • Lunar and Planetary Exploration
  • Astronomical Observation
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