We have some flight video from last night on a camera that we borrowed from the library, but we are having trouble getting it off of the camera. We are close though…
Just a quick idea of how it flew… It flew great under both R/C control, as well as autonomous control. As of now we only have level flight stabilization (roll and pitch), with no yaw correction. There was only minimal oscillation about the axes when put into autonomous mode, which means that we have the sensitivity set pretty well.
The first landing didn’t go so hot… Since we had a bit more weight up front with the sensors, it seemed as though the airplane was a bit nose heavy and came down faster than usual. Flying at Robertson makes it hard to get a nice long glide slope, which allows the pilot to get the plane slowed down in time for landing. On approach, the front wheel got caught in the grass and snapped the front part of the plane off. The wing also broke in the middle where the spars join up, but broke pretty cleanly so it should be a quick fix. The first two pictures are of the broken fuselage and wing, and the third picture is of the fuselage being fixed.
