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Old May 2nd 06, 07:13 AM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt
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"Bart D. Hull" wrote:

Are you sure it's Rotax powered?

Last RPV I saw up close on the Arizona border used two Moto Guzzi 650CC
motorcycle engines, with GM alternators grafted on the motors to replace
the Guzzi alternators. (Boy those electronics must pull some juice!!)
Sounds like it was on the same area that we caught up with it on, when
it crashed.

You should see some of the fun stuff that flies around here in the vast
spaces.

Bart D. Hull

Tempe, Arizona



Well, start with an A-10 autopilot. Add flight control actuators,
nav receivers (GPS mostly now), telemetry, on-board processor,
TV cameras and transmitters/recorders, gyro stabalized lenses,
waldos to work all that,
and a transponder in a Pear Tree...

THEN start talking about radar...

Yeah, they pull some trons.

But never heard of the motorcycle engines being used.
Way way too much money in the pot now for that.

Almost all current UAV engines run on Jet-A.
DoD requirement...
 




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