Gender
Male
About
Location
Melbourne, Victoria
About Me:
Mechanical Engineer with more than a decade in electronic engine control development and application in the OEM sphere. I am a lapsed PPL(A) and currently an experimental aircraft builder (Van's RV-8). UAV's are a fascinating diversion from rivetting...
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Inspired by press articles earlier this year on near-space ballooning, I would like to one day send a UAV glider aloft for a positionable return to land. I'm sure others have similar ideas.
Hometown:
Melbourne, Australia (sometimes)
Activity Feed
"Thanks Pedro!"
"Nice! Is there a .STEP available so us CAD obsessives can package it in our UAV obsessions?"
"Wow! Some real engineering. Great to see and congratulations!"
"Boeing spent $5.25 at BangGood and got millions of dollars-worth of publicity. Sure, it made sense!"
"Thing is, you can take your own measures to avoid tree shredders. If you choose to jump into the feed hopper, you're not really acting rationally and neither was this cyclist-cum-pedestrian.
If the car had been being driven by a distracted texting…"
If the car had been being driven by a distracted texting…"
"Ravi is not right. Propeller aircraft can go to 50000 feet. Google Grob G520 if you don't believe me."
"that's not a very encouraging way to state your prior experience..."
"What does it do that all the other flying wings out there don't...?"
"Well, you could adopt an albatross strategy and include perching to solar-recharge, dynamic soaring and thermaling to do the business."
"What caused the great concern...?"
"Nice work!"
"Nice machine! Can it do a 60km round-trip mission inside 45mins...?"
"Awesome work Alex! Congratulations"
"Awesome! Thanks for the links Andy - bedtime reading for at least one evening."
"Any links to your PhD dissertation Andy?"
