Thanks for that, Matt.
Very interesting article.
Mike
At 08:45 PM 2/10/2016, you wrote:
First 100km task flown autonomously (and all below 4000ft)
A commercial off-the-shelf RnR Products SBXC sailplane was outfitted
as a UAV and performed more than 100 test flights of the ALOFT
algorithm, with a nominal endurance of 3 min after a winchlaunch to
approximately 100 m altitude. A notable success was unofficially
breaking the cross-country soaring goal-and-return world record by
flying 97.2 km (60.4 mi) declared distance over approximately 4.55
hr. Best endurance demonstrated by the algorithm was 5.3 hr and best
range demonstrated by the algorithm was 113.4 km (70.47 mi) open
distance. There was no motor on the ALOFT sailplane for any of these
flights, so all the endurance and range performance clearly came
from flying in thermals
<http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA614555>http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA614555
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