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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Gary Mortimer on April 5, 2010 at 5:51am

Any standard RC model trainer will do that the Easystar would be great. If you must have a UAS then we will happily sell you one http://www.yellowplane.co.uk

Remember though that would be a commercial UAS flight and in the USA you would need a COA to undertake it.

Your a little behind the drag curve though, Pictearth used the Nokia N95 a couple of years ago.

http://pictearthusa.com/

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on April 5, 2010 at 7:39am

Yes, almost anything can do that, even an EasyStar. We went through our smartphone phase a few years ago, but maybe the current generation will prove more useful.

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Permalink Reply by James on April 5, 2010 at 1:46pm

Thanks for the info. I had looked at the Easystar, but I didn't know how it would go with a payload that heavy. We are flying in Australia, so we shouldn't have too many legal hassles.

The phones have come a long way. even two years ago, GPS was very much a novelty and it wasn't great in terms of performance. Now many phones have GPS and the cameras are getting a lot better too. We have proof of concepts of streaming video, it is now just a question of packaging it all up into the same application.

Thanks

James

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Permalink Reply by James on May 2, 2010 at 5:07pm

Hi,

One of our guys has an Ele-Bee and we have been using that with an Android mobile phone.

Here is a link to the flight, and some photos that we were able to get.

http://www.gpslogbooks.com/show/gav-RC_Combat_wing_flight_with_Android

Cheers,

James

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