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Posted by paul hubner on March 4, 2008 at 8:54am

I read about Maynard Hill when he sent this UAV across the Atlantic in 2003 but I though that there might be a good number of us who never read the story.http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/membersonly/dec04/features/amodel/amodel.htmlor for the kids:http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20031217/Feature1.aspPaul

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Sgt Ric March 11, 2008 at 12:42pm

Right, I'll wager that the Aerosonde budget was significantly more than Mr. Hill's, which makes me feel a closer bond.

Reading about the way he solved the many obstacles in the way really was amazing.
paul hubner March 11, 2008 at 9:05am

Ric,

You are correct - Aerosonde was the first to cross. Maynard was the first 'amateur' plane to cross as the plane weight was less than 11 pounds. I put amateur in quotes because we are such a group pf specialists, that its hard to see the line between Pro and Am.

Both definitely milestones.
Paul
Jack Crossfire March 4, 2008 at 3:16pm

This story definitely missed the mainstream media. That was the bottom of dot com crash #1 & everyone wanted to read business stories instead of technology stories.
Gareth Farrington March 4, 2008 at 11:46am

I was wondering when someone would bring that up. Its pretty cool!

Whats next the Pacific? Entirely on Open Source hardware and Software?
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Sgt Ric March 4, 2008 at 9:21am

A followup comment to an earlier point I made months ago...this was not the first autonomous model aircraft to cross the Atlantic..That was the Aerosonde in 1998.

http://www.aerosonde.com/drawarticle/4

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