Moderator Comment by Brian on February 10, 2012 at 7:24pm

Let's see some details.  I tried setting up a parachute but more of a drag chute.  It ended up putting too much stress on the air frame and where the boom mounted a crack formed in the fuse.  Your setup looks pretty sweet.

Comment by Russkel on February 10, 2012 at 8:19pm

Rough sounding landing.

What was the larger surface on the antenna tripod? I saw a small patch antenna at the top, then a rather large one about halfway up?

Comment by Trent at MyGeekShow on February 11, 2012 at 5:21am

Very cool! I can think of many, many applications for this (signal loss w/ last resort landing, small landing zone landing, etc.)

 

You'll have to provide more details! I'd love to try this too! Thanks for sharing.

Comment by Andrew Van Der Plaats on February 11, 2012 at 8:17am

Like the rest, I'm interested in how you set this recovery system up.

Comment by jim C. on February 11, 2012 at 8:45am

later put more information videos and photos,

skywalker weight: 2500 gr
autopilot: APM 1
Camera 10 x zoom
antennas: large 2.4 GHz 18db (video), 900 mhz small 9db (telemetry)
parachute: 140 cm diameter, home construction, for my. weight of the entireparachute system 200 gr

Comment by Russkel on February 11, 2012 at 8:47am

Thanks Jim. Looking good.

Comment by estebanflyer on February 11, 2012 at 11:53am

that's just awesome... does it get open up by running airflow or did you use some kind of rocket? doesn't look like it, but i ask anyways. I would love to have one for my quad..

Comment by Mathurin on February 11, 2012 at 7:48pm

Absolutely amazing! 

I agree with estebanflyer, how did you get it to shoot open?

Comment by jamie delarue on February 12, 2012 at 5:36pm

Looks great.it would be perfect as a fail safe.Looking to find out more.

 

 

Comment by jim C. on February 12, 2012 at 6:25pm

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