I Can See My House From Up Here!

The Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is quite an impressive piece of hardware. It can stay in the air for more than a day, has a range of 3,400 miles, and at very high altitude (its record is 19,928 meters (65,380.6 ft)). Usually it's the military that would… Continue

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A mere 30 centimeters long, the MAVion combines fixed wings with two counter rotating propellers, allowing it to operate with high aerodynamic efficiency--even in adverse conditions, according to the professor.





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Like many DIYers, I have way to many projects going on at once. Not sure how or why this is so but it always happens. This being Saturday I figure that I can dedicate most of the day to finishing my airframe.



List of things to do:



1. trim wing foam, use lightweight spackle to fill the defects.



2. go thru my collection of heat shrink covering to see if I have enough yellow to cover the wings, with red for a wing tip.



3. Cover the said wings in yellow… Continue