JAviator Project First Public Appearance
Christoph's Inaugural Lecture
The JAviator project happened to appear in public for the very first time in the context of Christoph's inaugural lecture held at the University of Salzburg. Rainer, who's responsible for designing the JAviator platform, was reluctant to hand out any of his initial drawings and blueprints in the early design phase (which we suppose have merely existed in his head at that point), so Christoph presented our two training models for conveying the mysticism of quadrotors. Both the X-UFO and the Draganflyer are commercially available and serve as excellent tools for learning about quadrotor dynamics. However, this is also the only purpose we use them for, since they can hardly be equipped with additional payload.
Christoph's Presentation
Prof. Urs Baumann joking while introducing Christoph for his inaugural lecture.
Christoph's Presentation
Christoph suspended deep in a sea of visions (fleets of interacting JAviators...).
Christoph's Presentation
Introducing the X-UFO and the Draganflyer (already crashed, check out rotors!).
X-UFO Live Demo
X-UFO revvin' up her engines, shovin' into overdrive, gettin' ready for lift-off...
X-UFO Live Demo
X-UFO cooling down after returning from successful mission, preparing for next lift-off.
Video Clips
The following video clips were taken while demonstrating the suitability of small quadrotors regarding indoor usage. Since our JAviator was under development and the Draganflyer was nonvolant at that time, all demonstrations were performed with the X-UFO. Flight commander Martin Heimlich, who volunteered to assist at this special event, looks back on many years of experience in flying model helicopters. Accordingly, he can fly everything that has rotors and the capability to lift off. There's currently no one better than him in our team, however, we're willing to learn and the force is strong in us!
- X-UFO Performance 1 (0:53)
- X-UFO Performance 2 (1:20)
- X-UFO Performance 3 (0:46)
- X-UFO Close-Up View (1:06)
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Verena Horak, Clemens Auer, and Bernhard Kast for taking pictures and videos. Special thanks to Martin Heimlich for his top-performing with the X-UFO.