FALCON Hypersonic Technology Demonstration
Bob Wetherall
Lockheed Martin Program Manager (ret.), AIAA Associate Fellow
Baylor University
Rogers Room 109
Monday, 20 April 2026
12-1pm
Mr. Wetherall will present the Hypersonic Technology Demonstration program called FALCON (Force Application and Launch from CONUS). The program was awarded in 2004 to demonstrate long duration, hypersonic maneuvering flight from Phase II prototype design and build to successful flight test, which has advanced our national hypersonics capability and database. This program demonstrated the first-ever use of an entire aeroshell of shape-stable Advanced Carbon-Carbon for long duration endoatmospheric flight with a very high lift-to-drag ratio (>3).