Great Test Fly and Flyday

November 10, 2010

This past weekend’s flyday was incredibly successful.  Not only did the Twinstar UAV take off autonomously via hand-launch and land autonomously repeatedly, but it took off several times from our wheeled cart (under manual control).  Next week:  We’ll try to get the autopilot to handle the takeoff from the cart.

Flyday with new members

October 28, 2010
Flyday with new members

The first flyday with new member was fun. We had some plane flying and the new member can try to …Read the Rest

We are having flyday on Sunday Oct 10, 2010. The main reason for the flyday is to train some of …Read the Rest

New member welcome

September 22, 2010
New member welcome

We are having a new member welcome meeting on Weds, Sept 29, 2010 in AME N715 at 5 PM. All …Read the Rest

the new competition

September 16, 2010

the main focus  this year for the older member of the club is for this competition.We want to design and …Read the Rest

2011 going back again

September 16, 2010

This year, we hope to go to SparkFun again and use that to train all the younger member of the …Read the Rest

The First Flyday of the Year

September 16, 2010

Since the year just start not long ago for U of A, we are having a fun fly day as …Read the Rest

The long needed update about the arc club is here. As most of the U of A already knew the …Read the Rest

Windy Fly Day

February 26, 2010

The previous two fly days had been pretty successful in terms of tuning the autopilot and overall autonomous flight time. …Read the Rest

Glider Crash

February 2, 2010
Glider Crash

While we were out tuning the paparazzi autopilot, Josh and Chris attempted to tow up a glider with our trainer …Read the Rest

Successful Autonomous Hand Launch

For this fly day, the goal was to simply spend more time learning the Paparazzi system. First we established the …Read the Rest