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  • Anthony Ransford July 6, 2011 at 4:45pm
    Well its been a busy 2 weeks. we have a Solid works design, most of our parts and a CNC machine ready to make our mold. I attached a pics. Were going to make the body out of G10 fiberglass sheets. Were using a trackuino for real time telemetry and a communiations specialist radio tracker for hunting if we lose it. The goal obviously is to not lose it. Any other info you would like just ask!

    Wing.jpg

    https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3692234037?profile=original
  • Paul Mather June 26, 2011 at 10:17am

    What's the downside to giving it a bigger wingspan? Or maybe the wings could pop out once it's falling to give it more stability with less drag on the way up.

  • Anthony Ransford June 26, 2011 at 9:24am

    Paul Mather,

     

    Very good observation, in fact early testing (no stabalization system) has showed extreme desire to roll, The APM has channel mixing for elevon control though and i believe that with no motor torqueing it and a constant elevon control from APM it should stabalize. Anyone have further thought/experience? it would be greatly appreciated

  • Paul Mather June 26, 2011 at 7:37am
    That design doesn't have much wingspan. It's going to want to roll very easily. I wonder if anyone's done testing in stabilize or Fly By Wire to see if the APM will make a tiny wingspan plane flyable.
  • Anthony Ransford June 21, 2011 at 3:26pm
    We attempted to purchase the GPS boomerang but it is not available currently. As for the altitude the plan is to fall from our max altitude until about 40,000 feet, then begin to aim in the desired direction for landing
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    Gary Mortimer June 21, 2011 at 3:01pm

    Should work, this is the one that largely inspired me to start this whole AP adventure

    http://members.shaw.ca/sonde/index.htm 

    and this is the only commercial system I know of  http://www.gpsboomerang.com/ 

    Good luck with your project.

     

     

    Shaw Communications
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