Unmanned Systems North America in Aug, anyone going? [Archive]

dalbert02

Jul 03, 2006, 10:20 PM

Hi, I was just curious if anyone was planning on going to the Unmanned Systems North America convention in Orlando, FL Aug 29-31. It would be great to hook up with someone rather then go alone.
-dave

(thread title updated to include pics)

djklein21

Jul 04, 2006, 02:19 AM

I was going to go, but the F3b team trials are in Muncie at the same time. I'll go to the AUVSI convention next year.

dalbert02

Jul 05, 2006, 09:33 AM

Next year Aug 7-9 '07 in D.C., maybe see you there.
-dave

typicalaimster

Jul 05, 2006, 09:35 AM

Hey that one is local... I might be able to swing that ;)

jszeto

Jul 05, 2006, 09:42 PM

I'm from Hong Kong, I wanted to go for this even. Although not much of any aviaition stuff going on in HK. But I used to do lots of model & gliding in while I studied in UK.

Pinga_Dog

Jul 07, 2006, 11:36 AM

It should be a great show. Our company will have a booth at the convention (Total Aircraft Services). Please stop bye and say hello. It is always nice to be able to put a face with the name.

thanks,
Stan

dalbert02

Jul 07, 2006, 11:49 AM

I'm from Hong Kong, I wanted to go for this even. Although not much of any aviaition stuff going on in HK. But I used to do lots of model & gliding in while I studied in UK.

Maybe this is closer to you?

Unmanned Systems East Asia 2007
October
Seoul, Korea

Magician

Jul 07, 2006, 03:21 PM

I'll be there with some of our toys. It's a relatively small community and I'm always amazed at the number of modelers I run into there.

Chris
Naval Research Lab

Tuner

Jul 12, 2006, 07:01 PM

I might spring for the $675 and go. Im trying to get more connected with the community as I intend on entering this industry at some point.

Scott

mlbco

Jul 12, 2006, 07:04 PM

I'll be there (booths 1916 and 1918).

Steve Morris
MLB Co.

why_fly_high

Jul 14, 2006, 05:30 PM

I'll be there with some of our toys. It's a relatively small community and I'm always amazed at the number of modelers I run into there.

Chris
Naval Research Lab

Chris,

There will be another modeller there you know as well. Maybe we can find a little time to chat. We won't have a booth but will be hanging out at the CIRPAS booth.

Later,

Dan

Magician

Jul 20, 2006, 10:05 AM

Dan,
Sounds good, we definitely have to sit down with some adult beverages and discuss UAVs, composite manufacturing and DBF stuff.

Steve,
Look forward to catching up with your latest projects. I love the ornithopter work you've been doing, very cool videos on your site.

Chris

lestingoy

Jul 20, 2006, 09:09 PM

Hi All,

Castle Creations will be there. We intend to display our line of controllers as well as showcase our custom engineering and manufacturing abilities.

We have numerous companies incorporating our controllers in their projects, and we have also branched out of motor controls into some areas of interest to UAV markets.

Looking forward to the show.

Lee

vortex00

Jul 25, 2006, 11:51 AM

I'll be there for the convention floor booths only wed and thurs.
Any others for an update on who's going?

Jack

Ensignnolo

Jul 25, 2006, 12:28 PM

Unterhausen

Jul 25, 2006, 04:00 PM

Countering the Emerging Mini UAV Threat to the Homeland
Ensignnolo :eek: that's lovely. Hopefully he discusses the do-nothing approach, since that makes the most sense.

reedchristiansen

Jul 25, 2006, 11:17 PM

All are welcome to come by the Procerus booth. We will have lots of neat stuff including the new micro ball gimbal and a demo of our digital pan tilt video camera.

Reed

coafin

Jul 31, 2006, 05:24 PM

It would be interesting to find out what is being said about our hobby in this Command and Control technical session Wednesday, August 30th:
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Countering the Emerging Mini UAV Threat to the Homeland
Dr. Wilson Engel, III, BlueForce LLC

Ensignnolo

Maybe he is also afraid of catapults threat to the Homeland. Cargo can fly as far, as accurate and as heavy payload.

First UAV was flying 1927 or something.

I dont like people who fear, and restricts life.

dalbert02

Aug 29, 2006, 09:34 PM

Even tho there is a tropical storm, I think I'm still going. Anyone else?
-dave

dalbert02

Aug 30, 2006, 10:22 PM

WOW! What a show! Waaaayyyy too many people and things to see then I could do in a day. I practically ran through the whole floor and it still took me 6 hours. 5 hour drive up, 5 hour drive back, made for a long day. Normally it is a 3.5 to 4 hour trip, but it was raining so hard, it took a while.

Thank you thank you thank you Lee (from Castle) for the awsome gift! It is much appreciated! I'll be contacting you to discuss further my UAV project.

Here is what I had to drive through:

-dave

dalbert02

Aug 30, 2006, 10:53 PM

and now some pics!

dalbert02

Aug 30, 2006, 11:24 PM

dalbert02

Aug 30, 2006, 11:35 PM

and a few more

ronmeister

Aug 31, 2006, 10:01 PM

I'll be there with some of our toys. It's a relatively small community and I'm always amazed at the number of modelers I run into there.

Chris
Naval Research Lab
Looks pretty close, I'll probably see you there.

Greg McNair

Sep 03, 2006, 12:52 PM

I've posted a few photos to a gallery:

AUVSI Gallery (http://www.aerialsouth.com/auvsi/index.htm)

dalbert02

Sep 03, 2006, 03:31 PM

Very cool Greg! Would you be willing to do a CD swap of pictures? I'll send you a CD of all that I have for a CD of yours. PM me if interested. I think the resolution is somewhat diminished when they are posted to the web, thats why. I am somewhat suprised that this thread has not generated more interest. I would have thought more people would be into this. :(
-dave

Greg McNair

Sep 03, 2006, 09:49 PM

Hey Dave,

Wish I had seen this thread before setting sail for Orly, I would have looked for you. I met up with a friend from Gainesville, and we wore our feet out and did at least 4 laps around the entire event. You'd think I would have taken more photos, but after awhile, I decided instead to talk with people, and set the camera aside. I know it sounds crazy, but in my opinion, the absolutely neatest product at the show had to be the simple Jeep Liberty with r/c controls. That company is not only thinking inside the box, they're running all up in it, and have a product which seems so marketable to so many more industries than the aviation sector has to offer. Second to that was seeing the "real" Scan Eagle and meeting the folks at Insitu, then seeing the Northrop Grumman offerings. That wing is an absolute thing of beauty, and you got the best photo of it. I'd be glad to share a CD with you. PM coming.

Greg

dalbert02

Sep 03, 2006, 10:51 PM

Ha! I did the opposite of you! I started talking to people and then realized I only had a few hours left and thought, Oh S#$%^!, I need to take some pictures of all this!
-dave
PM sent...

Greg McNair

Sep 04, 2006, 08:18 AM

Dave, cd comin' at ya!

reznikvova

Sep 04, 2006, 09:53 AM

Great Pictures!

peter_jensen

Sep 09, 2006, 10:21 PM

I'll toss my pics in to the mix too. I wasn't in a picture-taking mood so there's nothing great, but it was a good time:

http://www-gt.diff.net/media/2006_08_31_AUVSI/

-Peter

dalbert02

Sep 10, 2006, 07:38 AM

peter_jensen

Sep 10, 2006, 08:36 AM

Thanks Peter, I enjoyed those. Except for the picture of the guys butt. http://www-gt.diff.net/media/2006_08_31_AUVSI/_mg_7901.htm I'm out on that. You can keep that one. :) Would you like to swap CDs of pics too?

Greg let me know when you get my CD. It should be there by now, but I want to make sure. I included some other aviation related pics too.

-dave

PM sent, and really, I think you're missing the point of that photo, though it does fall in to a category of picture I'm guilty of taking on occasion -- the "secondary subject". In this case, it was the other photograher and his significant other, because right before they had really funny expressions.

Here's another example. The caption was, "Charlie thinks I took this picture of him, and judging by how old she appears to be I think I'm going to start agreeing with him. "
http://www-gt.diff.net/summer2000/pics/Paris__Le_Tour/1801_Charlie_looking_out.orig.jpg

-Peter

dalbert02

Sep 10, 2006, 12:10 PM

She's hot!
Err, I mean, umm, cute. Yeah. Cute.
PS Any more pics? ;)

lestingoy

Sep 10, 2006, 09:30 PM

Here are some of my pictures from the show.

I was working the Castle Creations display, so I didn't get much time to discuss details with the various companies.

lestingoy

Sep 10, 2006, 09:42 PM

dalbert02

Sep 10, 2006, 10:06 PM

Thanks Lee!
I especially like the close ups of the mechanical linkages. It is great to know how the pro's get it done! I wish I would have spent more time on the details rather then just an overview.
-dave

Hovertime

Sep 26, 2006, 09:38 PM

Hm seems like a neat toy fair, maybe next time for me...

MattChave

Jan 05, 2007, 11:01 PM

Hi all,
sorry to dig this one up again, but its a pitty to have it disapear, which is why i'm posting this too.
I've made an events page on our autopilot dev site (http://www.uavdev.com/events) . Anyone can submit an event and anyone can post comments and upload attachments like photos or programme's or proceedings or anything for everyone else to enjoy. It'll stay around even after the event has passed and it can always be searched for easily (try a search for "auvsi"). In the left column you can also see an upcoming list of the next 5 events that are on.
Don't be shy we have 100G of storage available and 1.5TB of bandwidth to tear through each month. :) :) :)

http://www.uavdev.com/events

Hopefully you'll find it usefull, cheers
matt