On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:32:14 +0000, Tom Gardner wrote:
On 06/02/14 06:38, Frank Whiteley wrote:
http://www.aerotechnews.com/news/201...-demonstrates-
autonomous-uas-to-uas-air-tow/
Wow. They are behind the curve 
Search youtube for combinations of rc/glider/towed and similar,
and you will see many many videos of rc enthusiasts doing just that!
I thought that too, until I read the text a bit more carefully. They
verified that the UAVs were trimmed correctly, etc by hand flying a tow
or two before they did a number of completely autonomous flights.
Its just unfortunate that the main picture shows one of the manually
flown launches and that they didn't publish any pictures of an antonomous
launch.
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