Gliding lecture slides
Glider instruments
- Principles of glider flight
- Lecture 1: Lift, drag and glide performance
- Lecture 2: Control and stability
- Glider instruments
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GammaFV
GammaFV Mac OS X
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GammaFV is a simple IGC file viewer for analysing glider flights on Apple Mac OS X.
Features include:
- Native Mac OS X application compatible with Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion on PowerPC and Intel architectures.
- Plots the geographic trace of a flight onto a terrain, satellite or road map.
- Optional colouring of the trace with vertical speed data (knots or m/s).
| Platform | Download |
|---|---|
| Mac OS X : Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion | GammaFV-OSX-1.1.dmg |
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Academic documents
- R Lancaster, N Silva, A Davies and J Clemmet, ExoMars Rover GNC Design and Development, ESA GNC conference 2011.
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Formation flight autopilot design for the GAF Jindivik Mk 4A UAV
Cranfield MSc thesis, 2004 -
An optical remote inspection system for the Surrey Nanosatellite Applications Program
Surrey MSc thesis, 2001 - R Lancaster and C Underwood, The SNAP-1 Machine Vision System, 14th Annual AIAA/Utah State University conference on Small Satellites, 2000
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Target location in aerial photography
Cambridge MA thesis, 1999