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Welcome to the Clarkson University UAV "Golden Eagle" Project campaign log. The UAV aircraft carries a sonic anemometer, provided by Applied Technologies, Inc., that acquires wind vectors and accelerations. The project is a portion of a greater effort in collecting weather condition and air quality data near wind farms in Indiana funded by the Department of Energy. In doing so, the onshore collaborative is a preliminary step towards gathering data for proposed offshore wind turbine farms on and around Lake Erie. Several academic institutions and industries are partnered in the research, including Clarkson University, Indiana University, Case Western Reserve University, Arizona State University, EDP Renewables, and SgurrEnergy. Feel free to email the project for more information concerning the campaign, team members, or the "Golden Eagle" UAV aircraft.

For more information, follow the link to Indiana University's project website, http://mypage.iu.edu/~rbarthel/website/DOEindex.html

Friday, May 11, 2012

Good afternoon! As this is being written we are all together working on the aircraft after yesterday's tests. We didn't have any critical damages happen on the aircraft except for a few loose fittings. The aircraft performed very well in the engine and taxiing tests. Check out this video clip of a portion of the UAV taxiing.




Notice in the video we managed to "hop" the aircraft off its front landing gear. We have lift! Personally, this project gets more and more exciting. Every step we get closer to "wheels up." Although we hoped for a maiden flight, for safety sake, we didn't want to get ahead of ourselves and overlook the minor details. We decided to return to our apartments and manage the loose fittings instead of attempting to make the minor repairs out on the airstrip. The sun was setting and we knew we would have beautiful weather today. Besides, we had crosswinds on the airstrip of about 6 mph. Crosswinds that high are not enough to ground an aircraft of this size but the conditions weren't ideal. 


Zack and Jonathan went to a local AMA field this morning for Zack to fly his personal sailplane just to give him some stick time leading up to the UAV flight. The wind was next to calm, eluding to a perfect flying day this afternoon!


It looks like we are about ready to leave the apartments and head to the airstrip. We will keep you posted on what transpires from today's tests.


Wish us luck!

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