Our UAV Activities

[Joseph Noci 1Participant @josephnoci1]

Here are a few more pics of our Unmanned aircraft designs and activities – we have 7 different type, ranging from 3kg up to 47kg, but instead of all the aircraft here are some photos, more engineering oriented, of the Day/Night Gimbal I designed for one of our aircraft. The gimbal weighs 260grams, fits in the nose, is gyro stabilised and steerable by the ground operator/observer – and some photos of the plane that carries this gimbal.

The video is of a 5meter wingspan pusherprop aircraft, carries a large day/night site and the whole aircraft weight 26kg – the auto-landing is quite nice to watch – comes in on a spiral downwards approach, and touches down nicely…

All our aircraft fly fully autonomously – enter the flight plan on a map, laod to the aircraft , press launch and of it goes, takes of, flies and comes home and lands in front of you..

Hope it's not too much for the ME site…

The EO/IR camera assembly

3 complete gimbals

The controller electronics in the gimbals

making the PCB's on the router

 

 

Gimbal mechanical and composite parts..

 

Here is the Large pusher prop plane video..

Regards

Joe

Edited By Joseph Noci 1 on 29/08/2017 22:36:18

[Joseph Noci 1Participant @josephnoci1]

Some of the things we get up to that do not take place in the work shop…

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

It is very interesting to see how much technology goes into something like drones and to see the end product in flight.

With your wildlife work plus the aircraft I wonder when you manage to rest.

Thank you Joe, please keep up all the good work and showing it to us on here as well,

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

From the detail Joe it seems a lot of it is, ' made in house' by you.?

That must keep you more than busy making batches of components.

Clive

[Anonymous]

Dammit, that's better than some of my landings.

Andrew

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