At 03:43 PM 13/07/2009, you wrote:
an interesting read.... in a nut shell - "The project goal is
141.7mi cross country without human intervention."
<http://soaring.goosetechnologies.com/>http://soaring.goosetechnologies.com/
Ben
Oh dear.
Way back in 1983 (when the juniors either didn't exist or were just
learning how to breathe air and screaming their outrage at being
born) I attended the 1983 SAA convention in Reno Nevada. At a session
on instrumentation we discussed advanced computerised instruments. It
was either Jim Weir (Radio Systems Technologies-worked on the landing
radar for the Viking Mars landers ) or Richard Ball (Ball
Variometers) who asked "Do we really want to send our gliders off on
a cross country and ask them whether they had a good time when they
get back?". Looks like we're about there.
OTGH the engineer in me says - way cool! What great project! Lets
put the gear in a full size sailplane and race it against the best
human pilots.
Mike
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