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Dec 23, 2012, 05:21 PM
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Northern Ireland, UK
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UK TV prog: James May's Toy Stories
James May hosted a 1hr programme tonight pn BBC2 where they launched a glider with an ardupilot mega and set a new UK record of 22 miles for distance travelled by a "Toy" unpowered glider.
The programme can be seen on BBC's iPlayer until 7.59pm GMT on Sunday 6th of Jan 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...s_Flight_Club/ This is only available to those with an internet connection in the UK (or a vpn hosted in the uk) Enjoy! /ns |
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Dec 23, 2012, 07:54 PM
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Asker, Oslo, Norway
Joined Feb 2009
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Last edited by brakar; Dec 24, 2012 at 02:49 AM.
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Dec 24, 2012, 10:07 AM
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Northern Ireland, UK
Joined May 2004
186 Posts
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What happened your original (rude) comment about the OP?
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Dec 24, 2012, 03:55 PM
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Dorset UK
Joined Dec 2006
920 Posts
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If only they'd tuned it..
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Dec 26, 2012, 04:50 PM
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Here's the pirate video.
 I'd like to see more on the CFD simulations they did for the second version. They didnt give enough attention to that and I suspect they used that info to set up the autopilot, or they combined that with data from the first version. They seemed to get close enough to make the flight.
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Dec 27, 2012, 03:11 PM
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Nottingham Road South Africa/Bedford UK
Joined Feb 2007
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I wonder how far it actually flew. Excellent program fab part of the world. Lots and lots of RAF based foolery for me just down the road at EGDC
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Dec 27, 2012, 09:28 PM
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Northern Ireland, UK
Joined May 2004
186 Posts
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They did admit that they hadn't the time to "test" the autopilot, so I guess as many have said on other forums the PIDs weren't dialled in properly.
A great advertisement for the Ardupilot anyway 
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Dec 29, 2012, 12:17 PM
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Joined Apr 2012
683 Posts
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i loved this watched it on the day
great autopilot |
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Dec 30, 2012, 12:55 PM
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United Kingdom, London
Joined Dec 2010
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Wow amaze ballz!!!
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