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"Have you thought of coupling the DS airframe with some variation on the current UAV autopilots so that it flies perfect elipses on the slope....something like a small 6 waypoint track. Would probably require DGPS so it would be accurate enough to…"
"With the gun mounted along the flight axis, I doubt that stability is much of an issue, but like the A-10 conserving speed will be a big issue for a lightweight airframe."
Saw a post to this on John Robbs blog that is now funded by DARPA. The white paper pdf that Sagetech published on this can be found here.
"Ive added a slightly modified section that traded 4-5 drag counts at High CL for a loss of 13-14 drag counts at low CL's.
If you look at the difference between the RG-15 and the new AQ, for the same alpha that the RG gets a CL of 0.800, the new AQ…"
If you look at the difference between the RG-15 and the new AQ, for the same alpha that the RG gets a CL of 0.800, the new AQ…"
"This is a hacked around FX section. The original wasn't a very good section and really required to be cleaned up. The original RG-15 at the design CL of 0.80 had 88 drag counts, The FX was at about 70 drag counts in the same condition and I got the…"
"this might be a bit better, comparison against the RG-15 section found in the UICC database scaled to 7%, couldn't find the FX section you mentioned, would be nice if you posted it here so I could play with it. Have attached the dat file for the…"
