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About Me:
Made my own autopilot system from scratch... Fully automatic takeoff, flight, and landing. NO laptop required... fully inertial.
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bordelon.net/ezstar.html
Hometown:
Natick, MA

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FreeSpace Autopilot Crash!

Posted on October 18, 2010 at 6:30am 26 Comments



I rarely crash. Maybe I've been lucky? I had been ignoring a bug for the longest time only to have it occur just as I was over the trees ready to land. There was no time to recover.




Toward the end of the video you can see the crash. The plane is trying to follow a runway beam but winds up oscillating back and forth and eventually tip stalls. The only thing that saved me from ending up on the roof of the barn was accidentally…
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Super early demo of FreeSpace video overlay system

Posted on October 15, 2010 at 7:05am 3 Comments





Super early demo of my video…
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Successful reverse thrust landing in 28+ mph gusty wind

Posted on October 9, 2010 at 7:50pm 14 Comments



Ever fly on days you know you shouldn't? Trees were swaying, and my gut was saying no. But I guess you never know until you try. I'd have to say that I couldn't fly in this wind. The ground track of the aircraft was so unintuitive, especially on landing. At times it was just hoovering overhead making minimal progress.



Days like this that really test your autopilot.



Anyway, this video shows my full auto-landing sequence, complete with the dive from 180… Continue

Fried motors

Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:00am 20 Comments

Doomed flight is here:







Hobbypartz.com has great prices and great motors. I think. But for some reason I seem to be having some very bad luck frying motors lately.



I've been running one of their 450TH motors rated for 230 watts (http://www.hobbypartz.com/45oubrmo6.html) at exactly 230 watts, and haven't had much issue with very short bursts at the 230 figure of 40 seconds or less for… Continue

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At 7:57am on September 28, 2009,
ModeratorSgt Ric said…
Sounds great, but aren't you the same TJ Bordlon who worked for NASA and has sent balloons to the edge of space?

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