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2007 |  U.S. Army adopts Vertigo’s Small Tactical AirBeam™
Tent as it’s newest military TEMPER tent and begins a five-year program to replace all of the
aluminum-frame TEMPERs in its Force Provider base camps with Vertigo STATs. |
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2006 |  Vertigo participated in the recovery of the
Stardust module on its return after 2 years in space. The aerogel containing grains from comet Wild 2
and interstellar dust has now been transported to the Stardust Lab at JSC for examination. |
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2005 |  AIMS (Aircraft Inflatable Maintenance Shelter) was deployed
in multiple locations across the country, in varying climate and weather conditions, including
use in Louisiana after hurricane Katrina as part of the relief effort. |
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2004 |  Vertigo establishes partnership with
Vorticity Ltd
of Oxford, England, to add unique dynamic modeling capability to Vertigo’s advanced aerodynamic
decelerator design capabilities. Hypercone – a high-efficiency inflatable decelerator
featuring Vertigo’s AirBeam™ technology – is modeled in a Martian atmosphere. |
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2003 |  Vertigo and
Capewell participated in PATCAD 2003 at the US Army's Yuma
Proving Ground. On the first day of airdrops, two AGAS units were dropped from a C-130 at 10,000 feet MSL,
and landed 16 meters and 25 meters, respectively, from the designated target. This unmatched performance
was greeted with an enthusiastic round of applause from observers who watched the demonstration from a
viewing area approximately a kilometer from the target. |
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2001 | 
Vertigo develops the Pneumatic Muscle Actuator (PMA) to reduce the rate-of-descent at ground
impact of an airdropped payload. Under the Army’s RRDAS program, Vertigo demonstrates PMA
technology with a 20,000 lb. payload under a cluster of four 100 ft. diameter G-11 cargo parachutes.
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1999 | 
Under contract to Martin-Baker Aircraft, Vertigo adapts its patented AirBeam™
technology to use as rapidly deployable yaw aerostabilizers for the US Navy Aircrew Common Ejection Seat.
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1997 |  Beach Zone Array addressed the problem of clearing mines
for an intended beach landing. Vertigo built a subscale version of a net laced
with shaped charges and the frame to extend and position the net. This array was delivered by a
subscale glider built by Leigh Aerospace. The Project was a proof of concept done in conjunction with and on
behalf of the Navy |
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1996 |  LANMaS deployed. Our first lightweight aircraft maintenance shelter
built in a joint effort with Fiber Innovations. |
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1991 |  Inflatable wings based on AirBeam technology built and successfully
tested.
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1991 |  Shipboard recovery of UAV in the Santa Barbara Channel.
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1990 |  UAV recovery testing at El Mirage dry lake.
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1989 |  Vertigo demonstrates the feasibility of recovering large
unmanned aerial vehicles suspended from a parafoil instead of the traditional round
parachute, reducing the risk of damage to the UAV. US Navy SH-60B helicopter successfully
engages a Teledyne Ryan Mid-Range UAV simulator.
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1988 |  First Mid Air Retrieval of a payload under a square parachute.
The BQM145 surveillance aircraft on its return after retrieval at Cuddeback Lake, California.
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1988 |  Vertigo pioneers the development of very small, highly
loaded ram-air parachutes under contract to Textron. DARPA’s 36-lb Damocles submunition – a
third-generation, sensor-fuzed weapon system – scans the ground beneath a 6.7-ft (2.1-m) span
Vertigo parafoil.
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1986 |  In 1986 Roy Haggard and Glen Brown team up to found
Vertigo Inc. |
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1980 |  In 1980, coming out of Ultralite products, Roy Haggard's Comet design
revolutionized the hang gliding world. Virtually all hang gliders over the following decade were
refinements of this design. |
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1977 | 
A consultant to Cal Tech and the auto racing industry, Glen Brown
invents a reduced-drag fairing for racing bicycles that is still in
production today – the ZZIPPER Road Fairing.
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