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HALE UAV at 60,000 ft (20,000 m) – Part 1

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Sunday, January 29th, 2012 10:41 am GMT -7 Sunday, January 29th, 2012 10:41 am GMT -7Sunday, January 29th, 2012 10:41 am GMT -7
 

I’m consulting for a company that is building an UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) designed to fly in the stratosphere.
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Watch this! (Buzzing)

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Thursday, January 26th, 2012 10:39 am GMT -7 Thursday, January 26th, 2012 10:39 am GMT -7Thursday, January 26th, 2012 10:39 am GMT -7
 

To fly safely, you need at least two out of these three: altitude, airspeed, or brains. If you like to do high speed passes close to the ground, you only have one out of the three.
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Model Airplane Stalls

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Friday, February 3rd, 2012 09:16 am GMT -7 Friday, February 3rd, 2012 09:16 am GMT -7Friday, February 3rd, 2012 09:16 am GMT -7
 

A bad day? When you stall your model airplane close to the ground. Let me explain what a stall really is.
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Learning Airplane Design from the Birds

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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 11:18 am GMT -7 Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 11:18 am GMT -7Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 11:18 am GMT -7
 

Let’s take measurements of birds and use that to guide the design of our model airplanes. Would our model airplanes end up looking any different than they do now?
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Why Do Model Airplanes Crash?

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Friday, January 27th, 2012 08:15 am GMT -7 Friday, January 27th, 2012 08:15 am GMT -7Friday, January 27th, 2012 08:15 am GMT -7
 

Under controlled laboratory conditions, it has been determined that all the damage to model airplanes occurs within one inch of the ground.Wink But why did it go down in the first place?
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