The unusual incident angle of Proteus’ canard and wing is optimized for minimum drag and maximum endurance.
Credit: Scaled Composites/Tyson Rininger for TVR24
From 54,000 ft., the blue sky high over Southern California takes on a darker hue, and the dazzling snow-capped peaks of the Sierra Nevada range appear to arch away out of sight over the curved horizon to the north. Contrails from commercial airliners crisscross the sky far below around 20,000 ft...
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