This is the blog of a one Ben Wilson, a Louisville, Kentucky native who enjoys baseball, beer, music, bikes, things that fly and good food. By day he pushes pixels and makes the Internet happen for a local advertising agency. His wife, Kelly is an Ironman, and his baby Amelia is the cutest thing ever.

Jul20

GPS Mapping of Model Flight

Normally, I don’t post stuff about my model sailplane hobby, but I thought that this neat idea was worth it. One of the ingenius guys at the Charles River RC club had the neat idea to fix a GPS to his plane and then take the information it gave him and plot it in 3-D space. The result was this image. He then later mixed that in with some satellite photography and came up with this image. Pretty neat! You’ll be able to read about it next month in an article he is preparing here next month.

update: for those interested, the original thread I found this on is here on LiftZone‘s forums: Show Me Your Launches!

filed under General and then tagged as Science,Soaring,Tech
Jul 20 2004 ~ 7:00 pm ~ Comments (3) ~

3 Comments

I’m a sucker for crap like this. Tell the world how your wireless-camera-sailplane project is coming.

Comment by geoff — July 21, 2004 @ 8:45 am
What’s up with this blogging about anothers blog?

http://charlesriverrcpictures.org/ipw-web/b2/

Comment by Jeff — July 30, 2004 @ 4:41 pm
I happened to see reference to your site on LiftZone’s forums — in a thread about launch photos,and thought it was cool!

Comment by ben — July 31, 2004 @ 11:21 pm

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