Friday, September 21, 2012

Solution found for stability

Well the stability problem induced by 2 moveable engines in charge of both the balance and propulsion was resolved in an elegant way. Actually the movie does point out to the fact the MAIN propulsion comes from the back too. With 3 points to lean on there is way less issues, and a redundancy in case one of the engines stops working. Next powered flight will be in a week. *Possibly* without a cable tether.

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Less noise

So the new nozzle design on the 2 experimental engines seem to do wonder. 11 minutes 30 seconds of powered flight... stability is better due to some better piloting abilities me and my sidekick have using the remote control. Basically the jets are now spread out over 100 times the area. There is loss of lift of about 30% but it is compensated b the ultra light structure. The sensors and other gizmos we added to keep track of the data will be reused into a simulation software I built to make better estimates on the real thing. Next prototype will be 1000 lb and I will compare both sets of data to be able to scale them to 250 tons with leeway. This will make for an extremely rugged and sturdy operational prototype. Too early to set a time frame but the 1000 lb version will be built by early January. This should leave us enough time to create a universal steering software and hardware that we can transpose to the bigger version.