WE WON!!!!
With the plane down from the tree and taped up, we were the last team of the day to do the last run. The winds had picked up to 10-15mph, gusting even higher. We had one run to hit it. Jordi took off, went downwind and switched it into autonomous mode. It made the first waypoint (into the wind) easy and them zoomed by the second one, then took the third waypoint (downwind) really wide. Then it started heading back into the wind towards the finish line. Oh no, it looks like it's too close to the building and we're going to cut a corner! But then, at the last minute, the plane corrected, moving slowly into the wind, and drifted to clear the corner by about a foot. Then straight and true over the finish line!
36 seconds! First place! Hurray!!!!!
36 seconds! First place! Hurray!!!!!
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Comment by Sami Finnilä on April 15, 2009 at 2:32pm - Congrats! You've earned it!
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Comment by Howard Gordon on April 15, 2009 at 2:32pm - Well done !!! Wish I could have been there to see it. You think this might quiet some of the doubters who ask if anyone actually got a plane to fly with an ArduPilot ?
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Comment by Jonas on April 15, 2009 at 2:33pm - congratulations
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Comment by Adam Kaplan on April 15, 2009 at 2:35pm - Congratulations!
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Comment by automatik on April 15, 2009 at 2:38pm - Congrats!
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Comment by Ios on April 15, 2009 at 2:40pm - Great work guys *congratulations*
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Comment by tycinis on April 15, 2009 at 2:41pm - Félicitation !!
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Comment by Pat on April 15, 2009 at 2:45pm
- Do you have a recorded flight path that you could share with us in Google Earth?
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Comment by Jack Crossfire on April 15, 2009 at 3:00pm - Fixed wings are the fastest. Surprised how hard it was. You'd think it would be a matter of flying a 1 mile circle.
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Comment by Howard Gordon on April 15, 2009 at 3:05pm
- Unless the start and finish lines were infinite, some precision was likely required to for a qualified lap. Also, a 1 mile circumference circuit at 30mph would not have beat the fastest land-based rover. Nothing like real world testing for finding out whether stuff actually works.
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