On 06/02/14 21:32, Martin Gregorie wrote:
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.

You're right, but you do have to read it carefully to see past all
the future tense and "...to evaluate the research pilot's ability to..."

The biggest clue is the "autonomous" in the URL!