Gender
Male
About
Location
Marshall, NC
About Me:
Aviation Maintenance Technician, basic aviation fanatic
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
A&P Mechanic who wanted UAV type aircraft, Finally went online and looked it up and found this awesome site.
Hometown:
WV
Activity Feed
"Nice! Some little kids wonder if they would be able to ride on my four feet wingspan aircraft, Now the Mom's will wonder if they can ride!"
"Today I soldered the magnetometer using the cable method, and plugged the APM into the computer, The APM would not even power up until I disconnected the magnetometer. I tried to enable the switch in the hardware page of the mission planner, but…"
"It's the first third of the wing from the wing root that is where nothing is mounted to the wing that you dont want to be affected by the propeller, I think mounting it any closer than that will cause problems. (possibly make the pitot tube stick…"
"It WAS really hot today over at my house, I still keep my shorts on though."
"Maybe I misunderstood the question though. As far as I know thicker airfoils make more lift eg. ZenithCH701, and high aspect ratio wings are better for slower flight. and sailplanes dont necessarily have thick airfoils, they do have high aspect…"
"I did a search a while ago "propeller aerodynamics free books" and found a pdf about wind turbines, but the math is way over my head and doesn't really mean anything to me, and I couldn't find it just now after a quick search, that was a while ago…"
"All I could think about when looking how close to the propellers it will be is something aerodynamic, But a tube structure is pretty close or the next best thing I guess if you could not get it perfectly aerodynamic.
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"I'm not sure if all of you know but 'Flying like a bird | part 14/14' was on the evening news ABC contacted him and he is not an engineer he is a film maker and he confessed that it was a hoax. "
"Surely we could negotiate a license"
