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Our humble build carries on...

For the very few of you who were interested, here are some more pictures from our project, which when compared to the hundreds of amazing things you guys do on this site, seems pretty low:

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In case anyone's wondering, the material we use is twinwall, kind of like the plastic version of cardboard (two plastic sheets connected by flutes running between them). The thing is, I know they're used alot for SPADs but not so much for slightly more complex things - is there anything about twinwall we've massively overlooked?

I know this has taken ages (we only get an hour a week to work on this :( ) but we've nearly finished the wing and the fuselage, but there's still so much to do - at least it'll keep me occupied for the next few months at least.

If you want to see more pics or whatever, visit our blog: http://uavkes.blogspot.com
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Inverted V-tail advantages?

Did some googling on military UAVs and it came up with this nice site, listing 30 UAVs currently in use and for future deployment.

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http://www.popsci.com/technology/gallery/2010-02/gallery-future-drones

I found the inverted v-tails on some of them interesting, can anyone enlighten me on the advantages they present compared to normal v-tails or even more conventional tailplanes? I've seen one or two blog posts with similar mods, but it seems all it does is save weight.


http://uavkes.blogspot.com <- our blog


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