Re: uav update

"Curtis L. Olson" <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:54:31 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.games.flightgear.terragear.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Well now how did I get the terragear address on that email ... sorry for 
the line noise.  In case anyone is curious, this is a small part of my 
day job (I know, this kind of hard work really sucks, but someone's got 
to do it.) :-)

http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/Models/Special/Rascal110_2/

Curt.


Curtis L. Olson wrote:

> Greg, correct me if I've missed anything here, but here is a quick 
> summary of our flights this morning.
>
> Equipment squawks:
>
> 1. Video camera was not working, no video.
> 2. Engine mounts are starting to vibrate loose.  We need to pop off 
> the cowl and tighten up everything.
>
> Results:
>
> 1. We successfully flew out of Jensen field, and started to get the 
> feel for how things are laid out down there.
>
> 2. We had some success with the synthetic display.  The big issue is 
> that we appear to not be getting 50hz attitude updates ... closer to 
> 5hz.  We need to figure out if this is due to midg configuration, 
> aerocom issues, or Curt's serial port interfacing code.  The data rate 
> was too slow for successful "under the hood" flying.  But there is 
> enough data there for nice replays in FlightGear.
>
> 3. Ted's photoreal model of Jensen worked out really well.  It looked 
> nice and we had it placed pretty close to right on (probably within 
> the limits of gps accuracy.)



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Curtis Olson        http://www.flightgear.org/~curt
HumanFIRST Program  http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
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