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Rockwell Damage Tolerant F-18 Model

Posted by LazyPilot on September 18, 2009 at 4:35pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiPNV1TR5k

You are viewing video of the final flight test for Phase II of Rockwell Collins damage tolerance program in which 60 percent of an unmanned aerial vehicles wing has been ejected and the adaptive co...Have you guys seen this? kinda old, but still pretty cool!What do you think?

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isobot September 19, 2009 at 12:49pm

Don't you just hate it when that happens....
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John Arne Birkeland September 19, 2009 at 12:35pm

Just replace missile with rc combat wing and suddenly it is not that far fetched. So start coding... :)
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Jordi Muñoz September 19, 2009 at 10:08am

Sweet, ardupilot V5 will have adaptive control system, in case your EasyStar wing is ripped off by a missile. ;-)
I Heart Robotics September 18, 2009 at 6:04pm

http://www.iheartrobotics.com/2008/09/uav-damage-control.html
The AIAA paper on the relay tuning it uses for adaptive control looks pretty interesting.
I have a copy somewhere but have not had time to read it thoroughly.

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