The Shed #6 Wayne Garris, Techpod
An interesting chat with Wayne, Kickstarter star and all round good egg. Its not easy bringing a new product to market, especially one that pushes the current envelope a little further. In this case time aloft, Wayne has already flown for two hours and confidently expects the platform to be able to make three.
A high performance remote control airplane for first person view (FPV) flying and the Umanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) hobbyist. Designed from the ground up to have an enclosed pan and tilt camera mounted in the nose for a completely unencumbered point of view. All wrapped up in a super slick fuselage with high aspect ratio wings, a high efficiency airfoil and room to swing up to a 12 inch propeller.
The all important specs:
- Cruise Speed: 32knots
- Max speed – 55knots
- stall speed @4.5lbs about 11 knots
- Climb Rate – 2000 ft/min
- Wingspan = 102 in
- wing area = 605 sq in
- Wing loading = 1.191 lbs per sq ft @ 5 lbs
- Fuselage Length = 45 in
- Dry weight = 2.75 lbs*
- loaded weight =5.0lbs (2.25 lbs of battery/payload)
- EPO Wings and fusalage contruction
- Carbon Fiber Tail Boom and wing spars
- flight times well in excess of 1 hour. make that 2 hours!
- assembly time 5 hours
