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Default Had to post this bit of personal UAV history

I received a feasibility commission back in '94 to design a long-duration UAV with autonomous flight capability. This was a very cool project and was quite extensive.

Motorola and Raytheon's application departments helped us on the inertial nav systems and Kodak on the IR and video imaging platform. The computer program was written in VB and took six months to write. I loved this project and actually got about 60% through the prototype when the plug was pulled. Not much remains in the way of pix and files. This is all I have with me on the road.

These days, I am doing less ambitious designs for AP work and such. The helo below is an example. Hope to get it to do some of the work itself as the project progresses.

History........Gotta love it


Cheers
Kevin
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