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Male
About
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Blaine, MN
About Me:
My brother and I are starting a project to take a small R/C glider to 100,000 feet with a helium balloon, drop it, and have it to return to the launch point autonomously. This is an ambitious project that we plan to take in with several smaller steps. My picture profile is of the R/C trainer (Eagle II) I learned on... after the rubber bands holding the wing failed about 100 feet up. The fuselage beat the wing down by a good 20 seconds. I think it will make a fine testbed though after a little reconstructive surgery. Although a foam aircraft might be even more forgiving...
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
sites.google.com/site/naviback/
Hometown:
Blaine, MN
Activity Feed
"Is there a sign-up for DroneCon? I'm planning to be there!"
"Yeah - this is exciting! Awesome stuff and I really appreciate the willingness to lead/teach from those who are masters of this craft."
"Any plans to do another webinar like this in the near future? I missed this one, but would love to attend another one. Was this one recorded by chance?"
"Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! I am very excited for you Chris. What an adventure!"
"You are definitely going in the right direction with your comments on the wider cord and different foil at the tip. I found my starting point was a little "off" based on some Reynolds number analysis, and ended up making those design change early…"
"Great work so far! What calculations did you use to come up with the 2 degrees of washout? I'm working on a similar wing, that has not flown yet, but I was coming up with recommended washout in the range of 4 to 8 degrees with the MH60. I'm using a…"
"Oh, and, that rendering of the flying with Andrew did is AWESOME! That is the direction I am pursuing as well."
"Google "flying wing design" and in the first page of results, you'll find several useful pages. Particularly:
http://www.mh-aerotools.de/airfoils/flywing1.htm
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231684…"
http://www.mh-aerotools.de/airfoils/flywing1.htm
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231684…"
"Exciting stuff. I hope the weather treats us well!"
"I just gotta say it too... Fantastic work Jason! I'm looking forward to getting this running in my lab soon. Thanks so much for sharing all your work so far."
"Fantastic and inspiring work! Thank you for sharing it."
"You guys might be interested in the SVID2USB2 which seems to pop up everywhere. The one I have is from StarTech.com, and comes with XP drivers. I was able to locate a third-party application for OS X: http://www.echofx.com/videoglide.html and it…"
Does anyone out there know about this project?http://www.vortex2.org/home/How is this being coordinated with the FAA?-Andy
"Thanks again Chris!"
"Great work to everyone! Thanks for the update Chris. Those airplanes are hard to see in the ustream... If you can, it'd be cool if you posted a pic of every aircraft if you get a chance."
"Awesome. This is a perfect compliment to Google Code and unifies everything in one easy to access place. Can you point me to a good reference for the syntax required in the Wiki? I looked at the help info and it wasn't too clear - or I was missing…"
