At 12:42 AM 1/20/2003 -0500, you wrote:
We are happy enough with the results that we are going to actually fly the 2' vehicle with the current arrangement. That landing will have wind angle, so we should learn some useful things from it. I would be surprised if it works poorly enough to hurt the vehicle.On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, John Carmack wrote: > http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=190One thing your crush tests didn't address: unless you plan to fly these puppies only in a dead calm, you should think about trying some tests with a bit of horizontal velocity as well as vertical. (E.g., hang load from a cable, pull load off center, release side force so it swings back toward center, drop load as cable reaches vertical.) That does bad things to many landing systems that look good in a precisely vertical touchdown. Henry Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For the full size tests, we will do a straight down drop, then a swinging drop. We will probably do a manned crane drop with the ballasted mockup, and we are going to look into doing a helicopter drop of the full-up vehicle (unmanned) to make sure the parachute system does perform as expected. We will then start unmanned flight tests.
John Carmack
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