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I was reading a spec for a commercial UAV and it stated that the design was capable of +/- 6G. I also noted that some catapault launchers generate a 15G load on launching.
Does anybody have an idea of the kind of G forces you see in hobby U
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I wondered if there was any information about that I could use to approximate airframe weight?
I was thinking that if you knew the total weight of the UAV its endurance and speed you could extrapolate the information?
Airframe weight 5 Kg
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In 2009 I started getting interested in the idea of making a UAV completely from rapid prototyping materials. I started out thinking I could just build a plastic plane, but quickly realised the materials were not stiff enough for creating
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I have been wondering if there is a minimum ceiling of operations where a flying uav is not classed as an aeroplane? I was reading about wing-in-ground-effect craft the other day and it was stated that they were classed under maritime legis
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I always knew that rapid prototyping has a big role to play in the future of next generation UAV,s . Here is a link to a company using Stratasys FDM technology to make gimbal mounted video cameras......I can't wait to see the first complete
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here is a rendering of the printed wing I have been designing. My idea is to create a rapid prototype/carbon fibre composite material which I can use in UAV applications. The concept is to be able to print the RP parts directly from CAD data
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I have been making rapid prototypes in plastic plated with a layer of nickel all over the part, the reason for doing this was to improve the material properties of the plastic to make it stiffer and stronger. I also wondered if this could be
Read more…Hi guys,I am just trying to model up the skins for my wing design in Carbon fibre. Does anyone know roughly how thick the carbon fibre would need to be for a 200x50x1000mm wing? I am proposing to use wet layup so you would expect it to perhaps be a l
Read more…Hi guys (are there any ladies here?)For some time I have been fantasizing about building a UAV and wondering what you could do with it, and if you can make any money from it!My fantasy project would be a fixed wing UAV designed to have a large enough
Read more…Hi Guys,I have a dream of designing and making an electric fixed wing UAV for civillian applications. I came up with the idea of making the airframe from a mixture of rapid prototype (rp) parts and CF box sections for the wing spars and backbone. I w
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