links
This is an old revision of the document!
Links
- Sat 10th March Meeting Logs
Parawing
- Sat 10th March Test Videos - homemade rogallo wing made out of bin liner, video 11 actually shows some sort of directional flight.
Parafoil
- The Black Rainbow - homemade powered powerfoil. Uses pretty standard parafoil kite, changes rigging method + uses a winch system rather than direct servo. Some videos showing that it does indeed work.
- Cyberchute - info about commercial model powered parafoils.
- NASA X-38 - Factsheet for a re-entry spacecraft that steers by a parafoil once below 24,000ft
- Nasa X38:
- X-38 - B52 drop test, parafoil deployment + steering + landing
- Atair Onyx :
- Oynx Precision Drop System Video - Military/Commercial parafoil drop system - incredible - pretty much proves it can be done.
Misc
- Slope Soaring Sim - Free flight sim for mac and windows, requires registration.
links.1173607261.txt.gz ยท Last modified: 2008/07/19 23:30 (external edit)