Windreiter MK8 "Hugin" aloft

[johannes.eissing]

Dear all,

here's the first flight of the Windreiter (Wind Rider) MK8 "Hugin", an integrated fin design.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ZLAhhOFxE

for more info see Windreiter (http://windreiter.de/wordpress/)

[enewsom]

That was a beautiful thing to see. Congratulations on getting it airborne!

[Alan Sherwood]

Looks impressive, but I'm wondering, are you going to cover over those big holes in the underside?

[johannes.eissing]

I hope the "maintenance holes" will be covered later. The Windreiter team built Hugin after some CAD sketches I provided. It is a prove of concept model for both the integrated fins and propulsor configuration. Stability and control is better than I dared to hope :)