Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Hovering in a stiff wind

 


4 comments:

  1. Kite

    DARPA would love that level of control input in real time. And the viewing port is stationary.

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  2. Saw a glider do that while we were on an exercise once.... winds were at 45 knots that day, and the stall speed of the glider was very close to that. It just hung in the air for about twenty minutes, at about 90 ft altitude.
    We were sure the instructor and student were a bit sweaty while they waited to see what the wind would do... not much room for error at that height.

    Mike in Canada

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