About

Gender

Male


Location

Tehachapi, CA


About Me:

Lifetime modeler (40+ years), R/C, CL, FF. Mfg. Engineer at Scaled Composites


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Interested in FPV, RPV, and programmable UAV's.


Hometown:

Tehachapi, CA


Activity Feed

Stan Hinman commented on Jean-Louis Naudin's blog post Full autonomous Cross Country Soaring flights with the ThermoPilot v6.x
"Soaring conditions are typically very dynamic, and are changing constantly.  It sounds as if you are logging a waypoint as the approximate center of the thermal, and using that to circle around.  Does your algorithm have a way to "core" the thermal,…"
Apr 9, 2012
Stan Hinman replied to Craig Audiss's discussion Need Advice on Gas Planes
"You might try hanging out with these guys:
http://www.clouddusters.net/
From their website they seem like a decent group.
Stan"
Oct 21, 2011
Stan Hinman replied to Craig Audiss's discussion Pretty discouraged Right now
"One of the biggest factors in successfully (and relatively cheaply) learning how to fly any R/C model is having someone experienced get you off on the right foot and shepherd you through the learning process.  One of the best ways to do this is to…"
Aug 10, 2011
Stan Hinman commented on Duane Brocious's blog post Blast from the past or sign of the future ?
"Blast from the past for me.  The hobby shop I worked in (this was the 70's) had one of these.  It amounted to having a stack of AMA applications in a file along with applications for most of the local clubs that required AMA licenses (read -…"
Jun 6, 2011