Gender
Male
About
Location
Nottinghamshire
About Me:
Ex LRRP's with FAC, LGB, TLZ and parachuting experience. Started Low Level Earth Observation in May 2011, to monitor crop health.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Commercial RPAS operations, design and building of micro UAV's both fixed wing and multi-rotor craft. Setting up a flight training school in Nottingham this year (2014).
Hometown:
Nottingham, England.
Activity Feed
"A novel launching system posted by Chris Anderson Trebuchet Drone Launcher"
"Check out Research into Serious Games - UCLan How to use muscle activity to fly a quadcopter drone. Professor Richards and Steven Lindley show their latest work on Serious Games at the University of Central Lancashire."
"@earthpatrol, I suggest you take another look this time next year and you'll realise how wrong you were to make such a statement!"
"Here are some tests I did this summer over a potatoes trials site, I flew three flights with a quadcopter using Canon cameras and one flight with a plane using the MicaSense RedEdge3 camera. One benefit of using the RedEdge3 camera is you have the…"
"@ Jeremy, thanks for the update on delivery dates. Will your module link to the SOLO's WiFi connection and then use MavLink commands to the SOLO Tx and Android Tablet, I ask as I'm curious to know if there will be any range limits?"
"@ Gary, I'll second that, from 4 days ago Drone tested for an hour in UK civil airspace
15 October 2015 Last updated at 14:40 BST
The first official trial of a large drone being flown through UK airspace shared by passenger jets has been carried out…"
15 October 2015 Last updated at 14:40 BST
The first official trial of a large drone being flown through UK airspace shared by passenger jets has been carried out…"
"@Stpehen I've never used Iris, but have used many multirotors with a PixHawk AP and several planes with 2.6 and PixHawk, plus Gluonpilot. I've been building drones for the last four years, pretty much full time and operating them for mapping crops.…"
"Hi All, I'm totally behind SOLO, after operating fixed winged planes of all types, Y6 multirotors and small quads, SOLO is the way foreward. It's solid and can be set up and packed away in 5 minutes. I have a project to supply farmers with their own…"
"@Jeremy could you give us an indication of when your new WiFi MAP Module will be in beta and available for testing?
I've been flying a Canon ELPH 115 on SOLO and own a QX1 with 20mm lens, so just give me a shout when you're ready for some people to…"
I've been flying a Canon ELPH 115 on SOLO and own a QX1 with 20mm lens, so just give me a shout when you're ready for some people to…"
"Sorry for the radio silence, but its busy, busy, busy! I wanted to share my first NDVI image using the RedEdge camera from MicaSense;
Five channels are used at the same time; band 1 = blue, band 2 - green,
band 3 = red, band 4 = red edge and band 5…"
Five channels are used at the same time; band 1 = blue, band 2 - green,
band 3 = red, band 4 = red edge and band 5…"
"Hi Jason,
I am based in Nottingham, but have been doing alot of work at Thorpe Constantine, just North of Tamworth and at Rougeley. My main work is in agriculture, but this is nearly all funded by various research grants. You need to decide if…"
I am based in Nottingham, but have been doing alot of work at Thorpe Constantine, just North of Tamworth and at Rougeley. My main work is in agriculture, but this is nearly all funded by various research grants. You need to decide if…"
"Hi Michael,
I really liked the Maja, but wanted something that could carry a larger camera, so I got a wide bodied one, although it took me a long time to get it flying, so I bought a SkyWalker2013 last summer and it has done most of the work.
Here…"
I really liked the Maja, but wanted something that could carry a larger camera, so I got a wide bodied one, although it took me a long time to get it flying, so I bought a SkyWalker2013 last summer and it has done most of the work.
Here…"
"Do you have the wide bodied Maja or a standard Maja / Explorer?
I had the design done in Auto CAD then cut out of plywood using a laser. If you already have a link to a gimbal, does that not have a way to fix it inside the plane?"
I had the design done in Auto CAD then cut out of plywood using a laser. If you already have a link to a gimbal, does that not have a way to fix it inside the plane?"
"Hi Michael,
The camera is not mounted in a gimbal, just a plywood form lined with foam."
The camera is not mounted in a gimbal, just a plywood form lined with foam."
"@Johar, I did post many pictures showing the catapults construction, bu C-Astral asked me to take them down, as they felt the images gave away their IP.
Basically its a hinged box section, with a precision milled rail bolted onto the opposit side of…"
Basically its a hinged box section, with a precision milled rail bolted onto the opposit side of…"
