Re: [Aus-soaring] Autonomous soaring

2016-02-11 Thread Paul Bart
D, the fact that it will be done without burning those pesky hydrocarbons should decrease your pain. Cheers Paul On Feb 11, 2016 11:51, "DMcD" wrote: > Interesting yes, alarming maybe. > > I had always hoped that gliding had no useful purpose and that it was > something like surfing. that one d

Re: [Aus-soaring] Autonomous soaring

2016-02-11 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 08:45 PM 2/10/2016, you wrote: First 100km task flown autonomously (and all below 4000ft) A commercial off-the-shelf RnR Products SBXC sailplane was outfitted as a UAV and performed more than 100 test flights of the ALOFT algorithm, with a nominal endurance of 3 min after a winchlaunch to

Re: [Aus-soaring] Autonomous soaring

2016-02-10 Thread Richard Frawley
hence all things will be position alerting, especially small things we cant see. I might indeed want to fly a ‘remote glider from my ‘office’ when I am 125 years old > On 11 Feb 2016, at 12:51 PM, DMcD wrote: > > Interesting yes, alarming maybe. > > I had always hoped that gliding had no u

Re: [Aus-soaring] Autonomous soaring

2016-02-10 Thread DMcD
Interesting yes, alarming maybe. I had always hoped that gliding had no useful purpose and that it was something like surfing. that one did just for the sake of it. Not something that you could use for killing people. To find that the Tactical Electronic Warfare Division of the US Navy has come c

Re: [Aus-soaring] Autonomous soaring

2016-02-10 Thread Mike Borgelt
Thanks for that, Matt. Very interesting article. Mike At 08:45 PM 2/10/2016, you wrote: First 100km task flown autonomously (and all below 4000ft) A commercial off-the-shelf RnR Products SBXC sailplane was outfitted as a UAV and performed more than 100 test flights of the ALOFT algorithm, w