Miscellaneous

Computer animation of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works' hypersonic cruise vehicle for DARPA Falcon programme

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RMIT UAS Research team successfully completes preliminary flight testing of its autonomous soaring Micro-Air-Vehicle.

The airframe (Alula) was kindly donated by Dream-Flight for Research purposes. It was instrumented with an autopilot programmed to autonomously slope soar.

This research was made possible, in part, through support and funding from the Defence Science Institute and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation.

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In the tradition of Flite Fest, Peter rallied some volunteers to build this all too famous failure to answer the question, will it fly?

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This video is part of "A bioinspired Separated Flow wing provides turbulence resilience and aerodynamic efficiency for miniature drones," by M. Di Luca; Y. Su; E. Shaw; K. Breuer at Brown University in Providence, RI; S. Mintchev at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland; published in Science Robotics 5, eaay8533 (2020) 29 January 2020.
Video courtesy Brown University

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