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Gender

Male


Location

Richmond Hill, GA


About Me:

Retired guard officer and aerospace engineer. I live on the coast just south of Savannah, GA and was involved in military support to civil authorities missions for twenty years. I co-authored the hurricane response plan for the Georgia Guard. Thirty+ years experience as a design / stability and control engineer for military & commercial aircraft.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I'm currently working on a fixed wing drone platform for communications relay & photo recon of coastal disaster areas.


Hometown:

Richmond Hill, GA


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John Gladin replied to Benjamin Harvey's discussion Wing severely oscillating in stabilize mode in ArduPlane User Group
"Dial down those gains.  I bet that will do it. "
Aug 10, 2014
John Gladin replied to Benjamin Harvey's discussion Wing severely oscillating in stabilize mode in ArduPlane User Group
"I'm not up to speed on the current versions but I'll give a couple of thoughts on it based purely on my experience as an aero engineer.

I noticed you were in a dive at the time.  How does your speed correlate to the problem?  If it does happen only…"
Aug 10, 2014
John Gladin replied to Zachary Eldridge's discussion Iphone and Android App Ground Control Station with Mavlink is in Progress
"Hi Zachary,
Seeing your post sparked a bit of inspiration for an application I've been working with.  I'm looking into applying some heavy computing power in the field but without adding a lot of additional equipment to the battalion trains. The…"
Jul 5, 2012