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.
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Are you able to post any photos?
ReplyDeleteSurely when the prototype is less ugly. The outer skin doesn't exist yet. My early October I may post a video of a test flight with the new software. I am not interested in creating a buzz or scrutiny on a scale preventing me from effectively working on this. It's already a pain commuting with a huge truck every once in a while through the high desert.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your reply. Please keep posting updates, I think I may be starting to understand this.
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