About

Gender

Male


Location

Auckland


About Me:

JacksonUAS Director.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

S&R , Mapping, Fun.


Hometown:

Auckland


Activity Feed

Chris Jackson commented on Philipp Oettershagen's blog post Tackling the European refugee crisis with solar-powered UAVs: A fully-autonomous Pixhawk-powered 26-hour Search-and-Rescue flight
"Very very impressive. Are you able to share any of your power system details? It sounds like a planetary box, and power draw is ~50W in a cruise, at what airspeed? "
Aug 26, 2016
Chris Jackson commented on Chris Jackson's blog post Rescue Robotics Indiegogo Launch
"X-craft was incorporated in 2010, its a New Zealand company that develops and operates a whole range of UAVs in a wide variety of roles, for a wide range of customers. It has absolutely no links to xCraft of Ohio (2014) who develop the tail sitter,…"
Jun 28, 2016
Chris Jackson commented on Chris Jackson's blog post Rescue Robotics Indiegogo Launch
"Obviously not the same company :) "
Jun 27, 2016
Chris Jackson posted a blog post
X-Crafts Indiegogo campaign for the next step in its development has launched.www.indiegogo.com/projects/rescue-robotics-join-the-revolution-save... Robotics has some big goals, but has the the right team of people behind it, who are…
Jun 27, 2016
Chris Jackson commented on Rustom Jehangir's blog post First Official ArduSub-Powered Underwater Vehicle: The BlueROV2
"Awesome, any videos of how it operates? Is it driven via mission planner? "
Jun 21, 2016
Chris Jackson commented on Chris Jackson's blog post Arducopter Parachute Testing
"Cheers, hopefully never have to see it pop again! "
Jun 21, 2016
Chris Jackson commented on Chris Jackson's blog post Arducopter Parachute Testing
"It did, they are just windmilling on the way down"
Jun 20, 2016
Chris Jackson commented on Chris Jackson's blog post Arducopter Parachute Testing
"Bit of mud on the props, otherwise fine!"
Jun 18, 2016
Chris Jackson posted a blog post
Strapped lots of cameras to our 900mm Hex, then popped the chute for the first time in the air.No landing in soft stuff, no perfect conditions (nasty squalls coming through!), we wanted to see what would happen in the real world!Pixhawk running…
Jun 17, 2016
Chris Jackson commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Stress testing drones in a wind vortex machine
"I had to stop watching after he said "like" 8 times in one sentence. "
May 12, 2016
Chris Jackson commented on Chris Anderson's blog post uAvionix (ADS-B for Pixhawk) raises VC from Andy Rubin of Google/Android fame
"16W at 978Mhz, wonder what effect that much noise does to the rest of the data RF onboard."
May 3, 2016
Chris Jackson commented on Marko Thaler's blog post Hybrid FPV racer
"S400 pylons are pretty small internally, I dont think even a standard 36x36 pixracer board would fit into most, probably with the except of the LP1.1 which is pretty roomy…"
May 2, 2016
Chris Jackson commented on Marko Thaler's blog post Hybrid FPV racer
"I think im in love! please make this opensource, I went through a bit of a S400 pylon "phase" a few years ago...

Incredible machine, and piloting, I want one bad."
Apr 30, 2016
Chris Jackson commented on Falcon Unmanned's blog post Falcon Unmanned Delivers Initial Fleet of Aircraft for Multiyear US Dept. of Interior UAS Contract
"Very very cool."
Apr 19, 2016
Chris Jackson commented on Hein du Plessis's blog post The Perfect UAV Mapping Camera
"Feedback to the flight controller via pwm or whatever of when the actual image was taken"
Apr 19, 2016
Chris Jackson commented on DG's blog post VAYU Aircraft Drone Company
"The props/fans look to be VP, but I doubt that. They also look very dinky and very innefficient. I like the planform though, does it actually exist as anything other than a rendering? Thats kind of the acid test...."
Apr 13, 2016
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