Came across this very interesting site on futuristic trends
http://www.hovercopter.com/The UAV concept keeps coming up regularly now a days , with the predator , Global hawk etc being successfully used UAV's .
In fact the key note lecture at the MIT( Anna University ) workshop FLYSPAD was also on the growing population of UAV's .
So I was just thinking it would be interesting to stimulate some thought here especially among young aspiring engineers on Automated Control systems for RC Planes .
I think as a extension to this hobby some of you should try to develop and build automated flight control systems .
Guys like Subu could start by trying to automate at least one control parameter like the Pitch/Yaw OR Roll .If students write to some of the micro controller companies asking for a free sample of a micro controller for trail they do oblige in most cases .
During the above lecture at Anna Univ it was mentioned by a senior Defense scientist that small countries like Israel are way ahead in this development because citizens like school students are trying various concepts in this area as a hobby and some of these developments are actually carried forward to application by the defense forces.
SUBU I THINK YOU WOULD BE ONE OF THE BEST CANDIDATES FOR SUCH WORK
This is just a thought though.
sai