Developer Comment by Sandro Benigno on August 4, 2011 at 3:55am

Great concept and aerodynamics. FPV guys will need to think better the camera mount due when switched from plane to hover they will see just the sky. Total panic! haha :P

Comment by Piotr Esden-Tempski on August 4, 2011 at 7:57am

Well, you can mount an actuated gimble. We did that and it works really well. As transition is automatic you don't get confused.

Comment by Jack Crossfire on August 4, 2011 at 5:48pm

All the extra weight of a wing for something that hovers with all the extra weight of 4 motors for something that flies forward.

Comment by Greg Fletcher on August 4, 2011 at 5:54pm

@ Jack,

All the fun of something that does both in the same flight.

Comment by Dale on August 5, 2011 at 4:14am

 

Neat little plane.  People can go ahead and make one though.  But it is ready made and clean.  

 

@ Chris, do you mean didn't work out for these guys if they have left Joby,  or is there some indication that Joby is no longer persuing the wind energy scheme? 

 

"doing the UAV-as-energy-generating-kite thing we wrote about earlier (which I gather didn't work out, sadly),"

Comment by george on August 5, 2011 at 11:18am

Does Ardupilot have the ability to support an osprey type setup? Anyone working on this?

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