Thread: Tow DROID
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Old February 6th 14, 09:32 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Martin Gregorie[_5_]
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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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