Wow! It was sunny and cold when I got one minute away from the field. At Kennedy Road it became a white-out!!! There were 7 cars and 9 Ryerson people waiting for me. They had 3 quads with them. The large one used a 10,000 mah battery 6S. Essentially a brick with a red and black wire coming from it. The quad only drew 18 amps empty while flying but is capable of lifting a ton.
This year's competition:
The quad has to autonomously fly across a field and GPS identify anywhere between 10 and 40 targets and take photographs of them. Then it has to fly into a building through an open window and drop a listening device in the room and return to base.
For bonus points it has to do a second mission into the building and read instructions from a piece of paper on a desk with 16 point type size writing, halfway between these two examples.
Example of the print size:
Why am I doing this" (14 point)
"Why am I doing this? (18 point size)
Today the winds were very strong- approx. 30 kmh. The Canadian flag at the Storage complex (Simon's hangar) at Kennedy Road and Stouffville was pointing straight out and flapping vigerously.
Trivia: it takes 19km/h winds to stretch out a Canadian flag. That is different from any other country's flag. The Canadian flag is a ratio of 1 to 2 (ratio of
hoist to
fly). All other flags are a ratio of 2 to 3 and straighten out in a lighter wind.
They had to film the flight. You will see a camera at the taxiway. They had to prove they met the flight milestone with their project.
Will post photos after dinner when I have access to my computer.
Dinner's done!
Here are the photos. Hagensesses- eat your hearts out!

Frank