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Forget Flarm Stealth, this will really change soaring competitions!
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Sec...?spt=sec&or=bn
Good luck getting this genie back in the bottle! Kirk 66 |
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Forget Flarm Stealth, this will really change soaring competitions!
Before long I will be able to sit back and eat my sandwich while auto-soar takes me for a ride.
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Forget Flarm Stealth, this will really change soaringcompetitions!
On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 14:14:46 -0800, kirk.stant wrote:
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Sec...16/01/06/Navy- tests-cooperative-soaring-for-UAV-sailplanes/4961452104725/?spt=sec&or=bn Good luck getting this genie back in the bottle! Actually, its been quite slow escaping from its bottle. As far as I can tell the origins were with the ALOFT project, the subject a PhD thesis completed in 2010 by Daniel J Edwards. The project was to develop an autonomous soaring autopilot for a 5m span carbon RC sailplane. It was successful and was even allowed to compete against human pilots in an RC XC competition in 2008: these events fly what I know as racing tasks (I think you call them AT tasks), typically round triangular courses of up to 100 km or so with the pilots riding in convertibles or on the back of pickups. The ALOFT system was hand-flown for launch and landing and, won one day (100km triangle, in autonomous mode for, IIRC, 98% of the flight. Up to the XC competition there was quite a bit of information about ALOFT on the web, mainly in model flying websites and the ALOFT project site. Oddly enough, after Dan Edwards got his PhD, virtually everything about the project vanished from the 'net, though careful searching can still find copies of his thesis. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | |
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Forget Flarm Stealth, this will really change soaring competitions!
On Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 5:14:49 PM UTC-5, kirk.stant wrote:
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Sec...?spt=sec&or=bn Good luck getting this genie back in the bottle! Kirk 66 or we could all just play condor XD |
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Forget Flarm Stealth, this will really change soaring competitions!
or we could all just play condor XD That would be the safest thing to do. XC |
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Forget Flarm Stealth, this will really change soaring competitions!
I heard Nightly Condor Racing is going to require Stealth Mode...........
May be just a rumor....... but now this thread can go on forever... WH1 |
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Forget Flarm Stealth, this will really change soaring competitions!
On Friday, January 8, 2016 at 8:57:05 AM UTC-5, wrote:
I heard Nightly Condor Racing is going to require Stealth Mode........... May be just a rumor....... but now this thread can go on forever... WH1 Sinatra and cocktails are totally acceptable...I think ND's onto something. XC |
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Forget Flarm Stealth, this will really change soaringcompetitions!
Screw that. I'm gonna stay in my easy chair, have a beer with my
sammich, and follow my flight on Flight Tracker! Just gotta figure out the launch... On 1/7/2016 4:32 PM, Casey wrote: Before long I will be able to sit back and eat my sandwich while auto-soar takes me for a ride. -- Dan, 5J |
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Forget Flarm Stealth, this will really change soaring competitions!
On Friday, January 8, 2016 at 8:52:20 AM UTC-5, XC wrote:
or we could all just play condor XD That would be the safest thing to do. XC i dunno man, a plane could still land on our houses while flying condor. |
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Forget Flarm Stealth, this will really change soaring competitions!
Come to the convention to hear a bit more about it! 10 AM Friday.
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