Forget Flarm Stealth, this will really change soaring competitions!

[kirk.stant]

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2016/01/06/Navy-tests-cooperative-soaring-for-UAV-sailplanes/4961452104725/?spt=sec&or=bn

Good luck getting this genie back in the bottle!

Kirk
66

[Casey[_2_]]

Before long I will be able to sit back and eat my sandwich while auto-soar takes me for a ride.

[Martin Gregorie[_5_]]

On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 14:14:46 -0800, kirk.stant wrote:

> http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2016/01/06/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 |

[ND]

On Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 5:14:49 PM UTC-5, kirk.stant wrote:
> http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2016/01/06/Navy-tests-cooperative-soaring-for-UAV-sailplanes/4961452104725/?spt=sec&or=bn
>
> Good luck getting this genie back in the bottle!
>
> Kirk
> 66

or we could all just play condor XD

[XC]

>
> or we could all just play condor XD

That would be the safest thing to do.
XC

[[email protected]]

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

[XC]

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

[Dan Marotta]

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

[ND]

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.

[Steve Leonard[_2_]]

Come to the convention to hear a bit more about it! 10 AM Friday.

[Darryl Ramm]

You might want to check with your robot overlords before making any brash assumptions about which music they prefer.

[[email protected]]

I have flown Condor - done a few contests - and know it a little.

I believe the physics will prove me right when I say:

If you in Condor flying a ASW27 at VNE and your buddy in Europe is flying a Ventus-cxa - then you push over and at teh same time he pulls up really really hard - (and you are within the range of FLARM Stealth mode)............
you can get a very bad ingury when you duck, fall off you chair (because you are sipping wine/beer/adult beverages)........ and hit your head on the debris you wife left on the floor for just such an occasion!

But it may just be at my house - oh while listening to Adel 25 (I am an early adapter)

WH1

[XC]

On Friday, January 8, 2016 at 4:19:24 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> I have flown Condor - done a few contests - and know it a little.
>
> I believe the physics will prove me right when I say:
>
> If you in Condor flying a ASW27 at VNE and your buddy in Europe is flying a Ventus-cxa - then you push over and at teh same time he pulls up really really hard - (and you are within the range of FLARM Stealth mode)............
> you can get a very bad ingury when you duck, fall off you chair (because you are sipping wine/beer/adult beverages)........ and hit your head on the debris you wife left on the floor for just such an occasion!
>
> But it may just be at my house - oh while listening to Adel 25 (I am an early adapter)
>
> WH1

Now you're talking. Whether you are part of the competition mode coalition or the open FLARM squadron, I think we can all get on board with some Adel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2zyjbH9zzA

XC