NASA's electric plane achieves vertical takeoff

3689612587?profile=originalEngineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., are studying the concept with models such as the unmanned aerial system GL-10 Greased Lightning. The GL-10, which has a 10-foot wingspan, recently flew successfully while tethered. Free-flight tests are planned in the fall of 2014.

http://www.nasa.gov/aero/testing-electric-propulsion.html#.U_VgeGNKiEf

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  • I know this is an old post but I was talking to somebody yesterday and they were saying the FC is an open source and not there system.

    The imprecation I was getting is it was in fact APM.

  • Somebody's been watching too much Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

  • They better OK this with Colson first. 

    Just Saying.

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  • Would be cool if NASA open sourced the flight controller and plans for these things.

  • its not a tri copter its only got two axis, its 12 motor bi plane/copter thingo :)

  • So what do you call this thing? A tilting quad-wing dexa-tri-rotor?
  • T3

    I thought this was a people sized airplane until I saw the 10ft wingspan.

  • Looks like the winner of the competition: "Stick 10 BL motors with folding props on a model plane"

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