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Old December 6th 10, 07:13 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Martin Gregorie[_5_]
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Default MIT UAV soaring technique

On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:40:53 -0800, bildan wrote:

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog...6103/?p1=Blogs


I smell a certain lack of preliminary research: any RC glider pilot will
tell you that pressure sensing TE varios for models have been available
for a long time. It would seem to be a lot easier and less power-hungry
to sample one of these than to calculate climb rate from GPS output.


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