Come and see the world in 3D
Maybe our plane will look like this one.
This is a picture of some one elses FPV EPP from Hobby King with a GoPro camera on it. We are wanting to use a 3D setup from GoPro but very similar idea. I think putting the pilot camera up on the wing so I can see the main camera easily and can still have clear view for flying.
3D Camera
This is camera made by GoPro and it is very simple setup that uses a cable to co ordinate the pictures so they are timed together correctly. With the software that GoPro provides you can edit and post your video on YouTube or some other video hosting service.
Base Station
The base station for the 3D FPV may not look exactly like this one but something where all the antennas and recievers can be moved and pointed as needed in order to optimize operation without having too much time involved in setup and tear down. There is a possibility a tracking antenna setup that will allow the ganging of antennas in bay arangement. Two sets of quads will be optimal. High gain without the beam being too tight.
A Little About Me
While I was in the Air Force one of my assignments was the 6514 Test Squadron working on the radar that was monted in this beast. I also Worked on the drones as well. The avionics bay is in the rear where one of the first GPS recievers was mounted on a drone. Data link for the GPS data was recieved on an antenna that I built specifically for this project. The radar on the air craft wasn't the high power skin tracking version used elsewhere. It is a transponder tracking system. In one version of the drone radar combination, it was a proportional control using the pulses from the radar gave change in position of control serface commands. It wasn't like our RC equipment but it was functional. This picture is taken in the gulf of Mexico when the ship's radar was being tested. In this varient, the controls were descrete. The auto pilot actually used mechanical gyro's(ug). It was commanded left turn, right turn, etc. via the pulses from the radar. We also used MANY other drone platforms. We had to build Big Sticks for the officer to crash I mean learn to fly RC for one of the programs. We had micro drones that look a lot like one of Hobby King's FPV platforms. Can't give a lot of details about some of the stuff we did but we had a chance to do some really cool things. Like we had a pnumatic launcher that had to be tested and we couldn't use the mission air craft to test so we used well um some vegetables, you know, the round orenge ones. PUMPKINS, ok we launched pumpkins. We were bored as hell and well it was that time of year, so that's what got launched for testing the launcher that mission. There were many oportunities for many experiences. Learned a lot. Had lots of fun. Even went to the top of the world to jump out of helicopter to chop parachute shroud lines from the drone before the wind drug it all over the dundra scattering pieces everywhere.
Here we are loading an AQM-34 drone for a mission. the hanger in the back ground is at Hill AFB, UT where the 6514 Test Squadron was stationed at the time.