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<hr>Originally posted by: member Bill
will, There is a Big chance you could beat NASA to some kind of solar powered, 48 hour glider. Who would have ever dreamed that the military would come to us modelers for such things as ornithopters that chase birds away from air strips, because birds do not make good feed for a Bombers Turbine jets. Consider the radio controled "snoop" and "spy" planes. Modelers have been taking pictures (and very good ones) from their RC models for years. 25 years ago I went to a RC fly-in at the Wright Patterson Air Force Museum. They tried to fly an experimental RC plane by watching a black and white TV screen, receiving a projected picture from a camera mounted in the airplane. The pilot got it up in the air, and switched his view to the TV and lost it. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]
You guys there in Aerospace Enginering have too much going for you to even think "It'll never happen." It is guys and gals like you that will MAKE IT HAPPEN!<hr></blockquote>


Thanks for the pep talk man, i feel all confident now! heh

Right now, we're trying to figure out where we can find some damn solar panels that aren't heavy as hell. We know that there are solar panels that come in thin films;we could even replace some of the wood with solar panels too, but at the same time we still have a budget. This damn campus is too damn stingy.

One more thing about aerodynamics, i should make another thread but whatever: Sandpaper on the wings. I was told by someone that if i put some sandpaper under the wing, close to the leading edge or something. The point is that it would help us fly at high angles of attack without stalling. What do you guys think?