Gender
Male
About
Location
Fort Wayne, IN
About Me:
I'm a fairly experienced builder and flyer and aerial photo/videography with quads and helos. But I want to move into fixed-wing aircraft with extremely long endurance.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Helicopters, Quadcopters, photography, videography, long endurance/autonomous fixed-wings.
Hometown:
fort wayne
Activity Feed
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/longest-autonomous-flightI was browsing the internet one day and came across this article, its about the world record endurance flight for a RC airplane, witch is 81 hours currently, but they never went to…
"seems about right to what were going for."
"ive been looking at that one for a while"
"You sir, have flawed logic. I have almost 200 hours(which i paid mostly for, my grandfather paid for the rest), i do my own laundry, have since i was like 6. And i don't have a study hall. And yes, i was going to work for my goal with steps(as said…"
"Im worried about everything going wrong with this project. "
"It has, but just not in the private sector yet. Thats what im trying to do. And thanks for your input. "
"No, but when the plane is in airport airspace, the transponder will work, but i also want it large enough so that other pilots can visually see it. That way we just have another layer of safety. I really don't want someone crashing into it and that…"
"Oh trust me, by this point i know that this project is going to be incredibly difficult. But it will happen. To prove my point i can use self-driving cars. When the first one came out, it was after years of development and it faced massive…"
"If we need to go over $10,000 for the AIRFRAME(i cant stress that the price im giving you guys is for the AIRFRAME ONLY), it is okay, but lets try to stay near that price."
"I know im wrong. And i've been wrong many times in this thread. We've gone from a sub-$5000 electric airframe with a 10+ hour range. To an airframe that has around a 20 ft wingspan with most likely a gas motor, and a sub-10hr endurance. And the…"
"I mean, you guys. We have cars that have their own licence. We've been to other PLANETS. we have the technology. The hardest part is going to be convincing people that its safe enough to trust. "
"Thats probably becuase the drone is not going to be a 30-40ft wingspan with 10+ hours of endurance. Its going to be a sub-30ft and around 10 hour endurance plane"
