A V-tail hotliner integrated with autopilot.
Endurance 30min because of small fuselage capacity,
cruise speed 50km/h. Shown loiters on small altitude since
at typical cruise altitude of 200m it is almost impossible to track a flying object on a clear sky.
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Of course, a Texas town recently "lost" their small UAV recently and from what I heard, they also failed their Airworthy FAA certification after 2 years of trying -- apparently they wanted to use it for a weapons firing platform and the FAA took issue to that. No Certificate. So, the police, I hear, got the insurance check for their lost UAV.
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@Vlad "As I understand, all Krzysztof planes developt by self, build by self, fly by self and progress by self."
Correct. The funding was the money earned during development of realtime software for plasma control in Tokamak fusion reactor for DRFC Cadarache and JET Culham circa 2000-2004.
The whole manufacturing chain is also by design made compatible with variety of sensors that can be scavenged from popular gaming devices or a few car types and the PCB technology allows manual soldering and manufacturing almost anywhere on the globe outside control of capital markets. It can function on obsolete 1Hz GPS and a single gyro (with platform restrictions). This is Free World's Autopilot.
Dear John...
Tell me please, WHO and WHERE financing development? As I understand, all Krzysztof planes developt by self, build by self, fly by self and progress by self.
As I understand, his not take any cents ( sorry - żadnego GROSZA ) for this work.
You get along a fairy tale...
Incidentally, the City of Houston paid for the "research" of certifying a 40 pound UAV from a recently acquired subsidiary of Boeing. Houston paid $250,000 in advance for this development just recently. A quick search of youtube.com will come up with it along with the $250,000.00 Houston paid for the UAV itself. And, during the "secret" demo a local tv station questioned them about this UAV issuing speeding tickets -- they were open to it. LOL
Ok, here's another example of military technology going civilian WWII microwave radar went cooking after Navy used them to cook hot dogs after chocolate melted. A quick search >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven Also, mini gyros such as new fiber upgraded from MIMS gyros came from military development ... the list goes on. How many times I cannot answer the list is long and time is short.
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@ John: Oh, many times military products migrate to civilian.
One and only - WHERE?
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Drogi Krzysztofie, OGROMNIE dziękuj za książkę.
If bureaucrats pay me for my effort, I can consider certifying it.
At the moment the civ non-gov market is not supporting introduction of additional toys required by ever-tightening laws.
But can you imagine getting it certified.
Oh, many times military products migrate to civilian. Like Sandia developed a $10 USD radar for short ranges but initially it derived from military use at a much higher cost. I expect the FAA to limit Air Certificates for UAV's in civilian sector having sense and avoid as it was referred to in their position papers. So, I looked to a variety of sense modes that could fit in the restricted world of UAV's: ie, electrostatic, spark with echo location, acoustic, Lidar, optical scan, frequency listening for radio traffic, and something analogous to metal detectors at a distance and machine vision. I'm still looking at options and would like to test them. Next year, a company is coming out with a tiny ultra light low power transponder but in the two grand USD range - I can't recall their name off the cuff. I can imagine a transponder solution for much less money than a couple grand.
While I appreciate your input, what is the correlation between military research radar for a few tons of USD and a civilian amateur UAV test platform?
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