It's Gary Mortimer day at DIY Drones! I just noticed that he's got a spiffy new(?) website for his aerial imaging company, and it looks like he's going to be a UK and South Africa rep for AttoPilot. Check it out here. Gary, can you tell us more about the company and your plans?
No the guardsheep photo is our take on the flying wing Patrick, it does look like one from Mike or Gene and not that unlike a zagi, the aerofoil is different though and shaping of the centre section keeps changing in different iterations, think we have it right now.
Quite by chance we called it Manta just like Chris did with his, to create a difference its now Manta EPP, it will be a low cost entry level device. As its EPP it will be able to bounce off things unlike other conventional based glider products that crunch. Rob and I were thinking about a £1500 price point to include everything, radio,aircraft Attopilot 1.8 GCS. The only thing we would'nt add would be camera as there are as many different choices in that regard as people that might purchase. Just the EPP airframe with motor/ESC will sell for less than £100. Expect it to appear on the flying wings website soon as well as YellowPlane.
Here it is along with a second one which sits unbuilt here, before I stuffed it in my case. Oh I need to say the complete system weighs less than 7KG quite important if you are planning to operate in the UK.
"that's the first time I have been to his website and you are right they do look very close from a distance." That would imply what to the casual reader? I could tell from a picture of the Manta shadow, I PM'ed Gary about that picture and asked if it was one of Genes birds. CM why don't you post some close up photo's so we can see the coincidences/differences and put this deal to bed?
Well in a nutshell Chris by about mid January next year I hope to rule the world.
It won't be a fair place but there might be room for open source.
Theres not much to say really other than we hope to be a successful outlet for Chris Mc Nairs wings and of course Deans Attopilot in both varients, anybody that has been following will know that along with http://www.flyingwings.co.uk we have been playing around with a range of EPP wings.
I think what will probably end up happening is that along with the Falcon 8 from Ascending Technologies we will end up being mostly a service provider of sales and flight training on some pretty cool gear!
All of this stemmed from the bar at Governors Camp in the Masai Mara in 2005,
I'm sure you are very well aware that I have been a supporter of Attopilot since its inception and was mighty impressed by Dean putting his neck on the block and leaving his job.
Thanks for the frontpage ad Chris! I think you can delete it now though, I'm embarrassed.
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Quite by chance we called it Manta just like Chris did with his, to create a difference its now Manta EPP, it will be a low cost entry level device. As its EPP it will be able to bounce off things unlike other conventional based glider products that crunch. Rob and I were thinking about a £1500 price point to include everything, radio,aircraft Attopilot 1.8 GCS. The only thing we would'nt add would be camera as there are as many different choices in that regard as people that might purchase. Just the EPP airframe with motor/ESC will sell for less than £100. Expect it to appear on the flying wings website soon as well as YellowPlane.
Here it is along with a second one which sits unbuilt here, before I stuffed it in my case. Oh I need to say the complete system weighs less than 7KG quite important if you are planning to operate in the UK.
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“No not in cahoots, there is only so many ways you can design a fuselage for a flying wing” Go tell that to Boeing and Northrop!
It won't be a fair place but there might be room for open source.
Theres not much to say really other than we hope to be a successful outlet for Chris Mc Nairs wings and of course Deans Attopilot in both varients, anybody that has been following will know that along with http://www.flyingwings.co.uk we have been playing around with a range of EPP wings.
I think what will probably end up happening is that along with the Falcon 8 from Ascending Technologies we will end up being mostly a service provider of sales and flight training on some pretty cool gear!
All of this stemmed from the bar at Governors Camp in the Masai Mara in 2005,
I'm sure you are very well aware that I have been a supporter of Attopilot since its inception and was mighty impressed by Dean putting his neck on the block and leaving his job.
Thanks for the frontpage ad Chris! I think you can delete it now though, I'm embarrassed.
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