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P3D v4 (aeroG) UV-4 eVTOL
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WE ARE LIVE! @Project Completed!
https://www.simshack.net/products/uv-4-v-stol-uav-fsx-p3d-1395
Next Part, 3D printed demonstrator. Let's get flying!
https://www.simshack.net/products/uv-4-v-stol-uav-fsx-p3d-1395
Next Part, 3D printed demonstrator. Let's get flying!
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I've been following your project since the beginning, I just tend not to comment on threads too often. Really glad to see that everything worked out. It's very cool to have watched an idea become a tangible object. You've certainly proved your dedication, despite the early critiquing a few of us gave you. Congrats!
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Thank You. I learned a lot about vertical flight working on this project, also completed a X-Plane edition. It is really a different set of rules over there, you can not play around with the physics at all it must be engineering specifications.
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Aircraft Review : AeroG UV-4 UAV
A coming major revolution to aviation are UAV's (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and Drones. Lets us first separate the distinction between UAV's and Drones although with larger Drones the area does cross over between the two types of aircraft.
UAV's are ground based piloted aircraft, mostly military at this point with the excellent General Atomics' "Predator B" being the current hollywood favorite casting actor in vogue. Drones are what what you buy in your local toy store although mostly it is in bigger electronic stores that are now the most visible distributors of this current in fashion fun tool.
The rules are clear in that UAV's can be over the horizon in operation, were as Drones have very specific rules in that the aircraft has to be less than 55gb, within your line of sight and restricted to 400ft AGL, and a load of restrictions in where you can and not fly.
The line is blurred above that of the basic rules of the use of heavier Drones. You do need then to become an actual pilot, sit an exam and prove you are totally capable of flying of which is in a sense is a commercial drone. A pilot certificate can also be issued under 14 CFR part 61 regulations (US). The rules are still tight, but you can use the Drone for many uses and for activities that involve people below in say sporting events and photography over cities.
I have followed the antics of fast food suppliers and Amazon in their desire to deliver pizza and parcels to your door, antics is the word and yet I may be ultimately proven wrong. But if you fly you would be familiar with the effects of variable wind patterns and lot of obstructions at low level flying that would mostly certainly render your Hawaiian pizzas to the pavement or simply dropping out of the air into your back garden, in other words a great idea but not realistic in the real complicated world. Although there is the benefit if it actual works of a Hawaiian and beef pizza colliding together above you and thus creating the perfect recipe before landing on your tomatoes to add in that extra Italian flavour.
But this UV-4 UAV is a very interesting and more practical machine. It has been created by the Bergen Community College in Bergen County, New Jersey USA. First it has electrical propulsion and not the usual heavy aero engines. However the biggest advantage as we will see is the sheer ease of the way it does fly and the absolute control and specific way you can allow the aircraft to travel from point to point. It could change the complete way we move around our planet in the future and have really great specific roles in the way it is utilised... In other words the UV-4 is the future.
UV-4
Basically the UV-4 is a streamlined box with four rotary fan nacelles with two small fans at the front (lifting), and the two bigger propulsion fans at the rear. The trick to the aircraft is not in it's shape or even the lifting fans as both technologies have been around for decades. But in the way the electronics control the dynamics of flight and speeds of the lifting bodies. This aircraft has a small central compartment with an opening door at the rear to deliver cargo, but at this size it is too small yet for commercial operations, it will be the same vehicle at a scale a little larger that would then make this flying machine viable.
The only visible worry is that the aircraft is very reminiscent of the Skynet controlled drones from the James Cameron "Terminator" films, so we will have a need to stay in control of the vehicle or the computers will take it over and wipe us all out with it...
Gimbal with HUD
The aircraft has a forward mounted camera system providing real-time visual perspective to the pilot station. The panel can be overlaid with any of Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D's sensor cameras.
Flying the UV-4
Stow the gear and switch out of the "hover" mode and with a slight push of the stick forward you can move into the direction you want to.
You still have to balance the throttle to maintain your correct altitude, but otherwise you will move forward like a slow helicopter. So is this UAV like a helicopter to fly?
Well yes and no to the more of the yes. As you still have to balance the throttle to a helicopter's collective to maintain the right angle and height for the correct flight path but here without keeping the pressure of keeping the tail rotor in check. Otherwise you just turn and yaw like you usually do for turns.
Starting up the UV-4 is just very simple. If the power is switched on you just simply advance the throttles and those huge fans start to turn and power up, and this UAV sounds like a huge mega-death vacuum cleaner on speed. More throttle and the fans allow the aircraft to defy gravity. This is where the computer power comes in. The system has a built in Artfiical-Stabilisation that keeps the aircraft correct and level with you just adjusting for wind direction, and no wind means it will just go straight up! It is very easy to balance the aircraft on the throttle... and there is no fighting the yaw like you do with a helicopter tail rotor. Gentle turn of the yaw and the aircraft will do a complete 360º turn on the same spot, totally brilliant
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krispy1001
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Cool Website Rob!!!!!!
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Thanks bud, I found a cool website wix they let you make free sites with free host. We can post upcoming projects and dl links when they are ready. We can still leave the old test site running for good times sake, unless you need server room.
☆ps you should post 3d renders of the buccaneer in 2017 what I am working on thread on these forums! No textured screen shots though those are classified
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