Comment by Fabien Bruning on June 27, 2012 at 1:14am

Lightbulb for status?

Comment by Krzysztof Bosak on June 27, 2012 at 1:28am

@Fabien

Lightbulb for status? Cmoon. How important said status should be for such a bulb, DEFCON? Tilt sensor is the right answer.

Comment by Kenny C on June 27, 2012 at 4:24am

This is a tilt sensor. I found two used in my ForteVR VFX-1 Headgear I bought 16 years ago that I used to play EF-2000 on my PC with 3D eyepieces. The "bulbs" are for head tracking, one per axis I presume?

Comment by Dimitar Kolev on June 28, 2012 at 1:48am

micro EMP and self-desctruction device, except tilt function :)

Comment by Rory Paul on June 28, 2012 at 5:48am

The story is that MP was started because the founder (a glider pilot) wanted an unmanned tug aircraft that could tow him up and then return and land autonomously. How much of this is true and not one of those nice stories invented and embellished  by  their marketing department is not clear.

Comment by Krzysztof Bosak on June 28, 2012 at 7:01am

@Rory do you know anything about the source of their capital? Govt half-sponsored, external investor or maybe the glider pilot used his pocket money earned flying glider charter?

The story of unmanned tug sounds for me immediately like total bs for noobs. One of tug pilot's jobs is intelligent scenario management when tug loses some power and both are low. There are no black&white options at this stage and workload requires some 2.5 human pilots full time, terrain avoidance and landing site selection being most important pilot skill in this case. I would imagine unmanned glider with human tug as intermediate case in any way, certainly not the opposite.

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