Stanford Students Claim Altitude Record For Tiny, Autonomous Airplanes

[happinesson]

kids and big boys will love this! Bon Voyage!

[thegreeensky]

wow! that was amazing... simply fantastic!!!

[adelle0001]

nice one! 

[agapitoflores001]

Wow. This is completely outrageous. I wanna have one!

[JoeVSvolcano]

Sorry guys, vimeo (14397072) has footage of a multiplex cularis (a foam 2m electric glider) hitting 15,000feet. But hey, he just bought that off a shelf and strappaed a camera/gps on board and went out flying. You guys built yours from scratch so maybe you can still hold the scratch built altitude record?

[crystalclear506]

does everyone in Stanford use Mac ?

[criticalzen]

Unfortunately, crashing is to be expected. I have been through a lot of planes in the last 20 years. I got one up to about 1000 feet and was impressed. At 7000 feet, they might want to look into painting their planes a nice dayglow red. When you can't see the plane, it kind of takes the fun out of it. The computers were for measuring altitude and GPS. There were obviously no remote control servos. Those were only built to climb.

[wuhlei]

cool are they using the computer to control the airplane?

[AMPjrTV]

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[wallaguest1]

cyber flyer did 4000 meters of  altitud time ago.

[PortableHacker]

mine went 10,000. so i obviously lost it :(

[wallaguest1]

i dont trust you, at 3000 meters air is so thin that is almost impossible climb with a tiny rc plane

[PortableHacker]

Well, its petrol jet... RC

[funnyhead6]

they said 7000 feet, not meters

[pinochet222]

seriously, how safe is it to fly these where commercial airplanes fly??

[atariocero]

Very safe, Commercial airplanes fly @ 30.000 - 40.000 Feets, and is a NASA facility, so, i think, private and commercial flights must be real restricted.

Sorry, English is not my first lenguage.

[mijutk]

he confidence to myself , hie choose the right way

[mijutk]

optimisam is agreat succus of life

[Mooja12]

Fantastic work.

[vtutorial]

Very nice...how do you build one lol.

[sk8binder]

E Z

[AurumenK]

stealing my ideas again? Fuck you us goverment.

[krbosak]

Far from amateur altitude record.

Current FPV record from Spain is around 3000m at 2KEUR budget.

[hobbes71002]

Was it autonomous tho?

[krbosak]

Who cares if this was autonomous.

I did 1km autonomous using underpowered easystar just in one trial with 250g camera onboard (this is what amateurs do every Sunday evening).

The guys that did 3km in Spain flown in FPV with heavy TX gear. There is NO CHANCE that no single university (French/German whoever) hadn't flown to that altitude with something like paparazzi. Claiming 7000ft to be 'probably world record in amateur/university' is a nonsense - this is too easy.

[hobbes71002]

I think the fact that it did it by itself is pretty interesting. I agree it isn't much as far as a record goes, but I still think autonomous flight is pretty cool.

[kawaim0m0]

I agree with you, krbosak. I'm also flying FPV on Spain and was aware of the 3300 meters record.

Again who cares about autonomous flight? there are a lot of devices you can carry in the plane to do that (ardupìlot, etc), no big deal

[krbosak]

To be more precise, I said who cares about auto in the sense that as long the record is nonexisting, you could claim your cat would fly it better.

Actually if you would use an autopilot, get rid of stupid receivers and most of all remove heavy TX gear (maybe retaining tiny wireless modem), you probably would beat hotliner FPV setup by 1km.

[lebasson]

Great stuff, good luck with pushing the envelope guys!