Do I smell another Kickstarter?
...we too need our own pursuit aircraft...
// great video, great results...onward and upward!
It's beers all round today as we announce a successful final Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) test flight, which saw our Vulture 2 spaceplane's avionics rig sent to 27,700m over Colorado and return to terra firma in fine fettle. Video still from Saturday's Edge flight Our US allies at Edge Research Lab kindly …
They were working, but at no load. Which is fine on the way up, there will be aerodynamic loads on the control surfaces which the servos will have to work against on the way down.
I wonder if this should be repeated with, say, a spring for each servo to work against? It's going to take a lot more current that way, as it probably will in the flight, and that's kinda critical...
> NASA keep airbrushing them out of theirs.
1) They don't airbrush them, they use content-aware fill, obviously.
2) They don't do it to mask the "stars and constellations" but to hide all the alien spacecrafts that are out there. The stars are just collateral damage.