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Laser Powered Quadrotor Sets New Aviation Record



From Xconomy: "A couple of startup companies set a world aviation record last night.


But they were pretty low-key about it. As I walked into the Future of Flight Aviation Center in Mukilteo, WA, a half hour north of Seattle, I saw little activity. It was after hours, and the…
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Added by Shannon Morrisey on October 28, 2010 at 5:30pm — 10 Comments

Tilt-Wing Stall Landing Technique Inspired by Birds

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has recently demonstrated an innovative landing control system that allows planes to land similarly to birds. Since this method allows quick changes of speed and fast landings, it might improve future aircraft...…



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Added by Shannon Morrisey on October 12, 2010 at 10:30am — 11 Comments

Latest UAV Replaces Flaps With Jets

A novel UAV has successfully demonstrated 'flapless flight' in the UK.


From Dailymail: "A British unmanned plane that uses jets of air to fly instead of conventional ‘flaps’ has made aviation history.


The experimental unmanned air vehicle (UAV), called DEMON, uses blown jets of air to…
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Added by Shannon Morrisey on September 27, 2010 at 4:10pm — 12 Comments

New UAV Designs Transform, Cooperate, and Sun Sail

All patent graphics: USPTO [moderator edit]



Some unusual new design schemes for UAVs were recently granted US patents.


From…
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Added by Shannon Morrisey on September 22, 2010 at 2:00pm — 7 Comments

Onboard Visual Navigation on a Quadrotor



Swiss engineers demonstrate onboard visual navigation scheme on the Pixhawk quadrotor. Rapid disturbance response is achieved through low CPU usage and 30ms latency from shutter to control output.


from pixhawk:…
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Added by Shannon Morrisey on September 17, 2010 at 10:56am — 4 Comments

UAV to Stay Aloft for 5 Years

Boeing plans to build a solar powered UAV capable of 5 years sustained flight challenging conventional notions about what goes up…


excerpt:
"Boeing has won an $89 million government contract to build and fly an unmanned solar-powered plane that can--eventually--stay aloft continuously for up to five years. Yes, that's five years.


The defense contractor will develop the…
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Added by Shannon Morrisey on September 16, 2010 at 2:35pm — 14 Comments

Caution: Robot Driver in Training



Good short opinion piece on the increasingly complex regulations surrounding UAVs occupying civilian airspace.


excerpt:
"If, for some unknown reason, the Air Force desperately needs to surveil northern tier wheat patches, let’s have a new class of airspace called MOA/DRONE. Put it on…
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Added by Shannon Morrisey on September 15, 2010 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

DIY Drones - South African Chapter first general meeting

Hear ye! hear ye! On this 5th day of the month of February in the year 2010 it happened, the first get together of the South African Chapter of DIYDrones!


I would say it turned out very successful, starting off very informal then quickly turning in to a storm of ideas lasting quite a few hours. Hopefully the first of many!


Sarel will post some more info on ideas and decisions made.


Thank you to Sarel and…
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Added by Tiaan Roux on February 5, 2010 at 11:49am — 35 Comments


Developer The Ardupilot FG Control for the Flight Gear Simulator

The ArduFGControl is a PC application which allows you to test and tune your Ardupilot CPU board with the Flight Gear Simulator. FlightGear is a free and an open source flight simulator developped by Curtis Olson.… Continue

Added by Jean-Louis Naudin on December 6, 2009 at 7:00am — 28 Comments


Developer The ASP XR-01 UAV with the Ardupilot v2.4.6

On nov 15,2009, this was a great day, my ASP XR-01 UAV fully equiped with the ArduPilot v2.4.6 has done successfully its first series of 10 full autonomous flights under the flight plan. The ASP XR-01 is a customized version of the Sonicliner from Multiplex, my model has… Continue

Added by Jean-Louis Naudin on November 19, 2009 at 1:19am — 30 Comments


Developer Flying with ArduPilot onboard

Hello to All,



The purpose of this blog is to share with you some feedbacks about my flights experiences with the ArduPilot onboard.



ArduPilot on EasyGlider videos :

Flight plan mode, Fail Safe and RTH mode has been tested with the ArduPilot :

http://diydrones.com/video/flight-plan-mode-fail-safe-and

EasyGlider flight with… Continue

Added by Jean-Louis Naudin on November 2, 2009 at 9:48am — 15 Comments

FR 102 from flying robots

A french cie has developped a large UAS bases on parafoil the FR 102 :

Video :

http://www.flying-robots.com/Downloads/FlyingRobots_autoflydemomaster.wmv



Spec



* Cruise speed : 80 km/h

* Maximum Payload : 250 Kg/ 1 m3

* Maximum take-off weight : 600 kg

* Engine : Rotax 912, 100 Cv

* 100% automatic UAS system

* TM-TC transmissions : exceeding 120 km

* Video transmissions : line of sight

* Max. Endurance : 1000 km

* Autonomy :… Continue

Added by Bertrand Duchiron on September 13, 2009 at 11:28am — 1 Comment


Moderator Flipping weather

Got up early this morning to catch a break in the weather before rain.



Two hours more time on airframe 1



Airframe 2, now comes in three fits,



Observer - looking at things one.



Telegraph - relaying things one.



Guardian - looking for baddies or fence breaks one.



Its all coming together very well, after I've charged everything again I shall head out for another two hours of flying. This time with some sandwiches.…

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Added by Gary Mortimer on May 19, 2009 at 1:10am — 3 Comments

Small Pilot Project in South Africa using UAS for Medical Sample Delivery

I cam across this information while doing some research today. I thought that this was a very interesting application of small UAS technology. I do not believe that it would be currently viable with the very technical nature of the systems and the skill set required to operate them but still a very interesting concept.



http://www.nhls.ac.za/about_news.html…





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Added by Rory Paul on September 3, 2008 at 8:30pm — 6 Comments

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