"Could we have categories for posts ? So that it's clearly visible from the frontpage is something is open source & free or paid/requires a monthly fee and maybe a seperate category for regular posts that describe events, news etc."
"Seems like a cool idea until you see that huge 'biohazard' warning sticker :-D
Ebola infected blood dropping from the skies ?? What could possibly go wrong"
"Ok but why HD to begin with ? I mean something like 640X400 would be more than adequate and the bandwith requirement is almost 4 times lower. Not to mentio that it's going to need less computing power for compression.
Once you start moving fast in horizontal plane it effectively becomes a plane with almost no wings.
So technically it's a tailsitter that's a little bit less affected by wind in hovering stage but much worse in…"
"Have you done the math on it ? How much power do you need to sustain a flight (with all the electronics**? Calculate per hour and convert into Wh / 24h. From the point just see how much surface area you need for solar panels
"I don't think that the tailsitter is necessarily much more affected than some of the quad fixed wing hybrids that have been posted here. It's practically the same.
Wind is a problem for real VTOLs too. AFAIK harriers had problems with it and it…"