Alpha 40 altitude profile

On September 26th, I put a GPS onboard the Alpha to record altitude, path, and speed information. Here are some selected results (I did a second test run yesterday, but those results aren't included here:)

Average speed: 40-42MPH
Max speed: 60+MPH
Peak altitude (under my control): 1088 ft above the ground (in MSL, this is about 1683 feet)

More later!
This entry was posted by Adrian Lauf on Tuesday, September 08. 2009 at 14:14. and is filed under Research. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own blog.

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  1. Jason R says:
    #1 2009-09-08 20:53 (Reply)

    How did you go several tens of feet below ground at the end of your data collection? ;-)

  2. Adrian Lauf says:
    #1.1 2009-09-09 00:31 (Reply)

    I hoped someone would bring that up, fitting that it'd be you - there was a crash at the end. :-) The plane ended up in a park bench, and the GPS got ruffled a bit. I think the bench messed with accuracy - the average long-term reading for ground level was 181m, but after the crash and under the bench, it read 170 for a few seconds.


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