Gender

Male

Location

Saint Louis, MO

About Me:

Retired McDonnell/Boeing digital flight controls specialist. Responsible for design/development of the autonomous digital strapdown guidance and control system in the HARPOON/SLAM cruise missile. Ditto for the F/A 18 Hornet. The Hornet relied on a central IMU for attitude info, but had embedded strapdown algorithms that integrated the rate gyros for dynamic maneuvers. One example was to tie the roll rate vector to the roll axis in high speed rolls so the pilot had pure lateral stick control input. Former member. Keeping up gives me something to think about.

Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Experimented with autonomous flight and mission programming through 2 generations of the ArduPilot. The recent drone incident in Venezuela prompted me to get current.

Hometown:

Sunset Hills