Gender

Male

Location

Santa Ana, CA

About Me:

Mechanical engineer working in aerospace market for FEA company. Primarily structural analysis but can do some limited motion analysis and want to get into controls and CFD at some point.

Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Interested in VTOL aircraft. The area I need the most work on is control systems. To these ends I've gotten pretty good at Parallax Stamp/Propeller controllers and sensors. But still learning. Manufacturing/creating items is not a problem. I have CNC mill and lathe. Even CNC circuit boards from time to time. Due to location I stick with electric but depending on size and scope I may try turbine or return to gas. Also I've flown RC planes since I was a kid. I can fly helicopters but don't care for them. Built and flew quadcopter but again not as interesting as VTOL. I also help Universities Students from time to time. Recently built a loadcell into an RC plane and got electric power, velocity vs thrust. As an example. Previously I had a website to document what I was doing. But it took too much time from actually getting my toys done. But I would like to document what I've done/planing once I get my VTOL control issues resolved.

Hometown:

Santa Ana