"I've always imagined a Tail-sitting VTOL X-Wing Fighter. Takes off and initially flies like a multi-rotor with the nose vertical, but then as forward flight creates more and more lift on the wing surfaces, it would progress into forward flight…"
"Way back in the early days of ArduPilotMega, I did some simulations for the folks over at IHABproject dot com ; for an APM enabled - return to launch mode - non-powered decent for the balloon return vehicle. I think they lost an APM test rig in…"
On a lunch break last month, a small custom-built octacopter made a 10-minute flight through the city of Guildford, outside of London. Its special cargo: two large pepperoni pizzas.The delivery was masterminded by a T + Biscuits, an English…
"Mine was not a mid-air, but a wing failure mid-flight. (long-o tell-o so will end there.)
But way to go on your patience to collect post-crash investigation data. I know how it can feel to recover a downed plane."
"There was recently a posting that talked about how we are overdoing the amount of dampening material. Or better yet; not taking full potential of thier properties.
I think we need something simple, like we coat the inside of the APM2.5+ Case with…"
"Yes, exactly that kind of system is what we need. A Widly Used, Passive/Active beacon-ish thingy. One that can broadcast valuable info to existing ATC systems, enhancing our safety, along with those of larger aerial platforms.
Given enough data it…"
"Do you need to be running arducopter?
I believe ardurover code is small enough to run on an apm1; and do the logging you need.
Regardless if its in any control modes; I think just booted-up and running its going to log to flash the sensor data.…"
"oh gimme a break I just said pondered. I didnt say I have new invention or anything like that.
as far as Sadoway goes; I kinda like the professor, and kept my eye on him for several years now. Other than going corporate with his new invention,…"
"that wiki also mentions a low temp molten salt battey...
So instead of just saying no that cant work... why not try ... hmm.. wonder if that might work?
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