{"id":189913,"date":"2010-01-30T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/30\/urban-air-mule-demonstrates-hover\/"},"modified":"2010-01-30T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T14:27:00","slug":"urban-air-mule-demonstrates-hover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/30\/urban-air-mule-demonstrates-hover\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Air Mule Demonstrates Hover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img707.imageshack.us\/img707\/3018\/4a5b853c1dfd4f61bc276f4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img707.imageshack.us\/img707\/3018\/4a5b853c1dfd4f61bc276f4.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/img130.imageshack.us\/img130\/4279\/7907bfbbabf4444e8f462b0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img130.imageshack.us\/img130\/4279\/7907bfbbabf4444e8f462b0.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/>Looks a bit Buck Rogers<\/span><\/div>\n<p>So, the Israeli ducted fan cargo UAV concept has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A452dff49-5fec-45fa-adb2-19c7d720a385\">finally left the ground<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This appears to have validated the basic control systems, as well as the software.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the most likely route to success will be on an eventual autonomous ambulance (bottom pic), particularly since the ducted fan arrangement eliminates those pesky rotors which can strike buildings and people.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/israeli-firms-unveils-small-cargo-uav.html\">original post on this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size Looks a bit Buck Rogers So, the Israeli ducted fan cargo UAV concept has finally left the ground. This appears to have validated the basic control systems, as well as the software. It appears that the most likely route to success will be on an eventual autonomous ambulance (bottom pic), particularly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1159,1025,1152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-israel","category-technology","category-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}