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johannes.eissing
06-17-2011, 01:25 PM
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
06-21-2011, 07:31 PM
That was a beautiful thing to see. Congratulations on getting it airborne!

Alan Sherwood
06-22-2011, 02:08 PM
Looks impressive, but I'm wondering, are you going to cover over those big holes in the underside?

johannes.eissing
06-25-2011, 12:43 AM
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 :)