Hi there! 

In the last project LOG, it told you we were close from reaching our objective: dropping the system high and far in the sky from the drone, open the wing autonomously at the right altitude, and flying autonomously back to home. 

Today, I am incredibly happy to be able to tell you that this goal has been reached!

Here is the video: 

On that flight if you look at the GPS trace, you can see that the wind was coming from the bottom left of the square. You can also see that the wing was able to fly upwind. 

The trace isn't a straight line, because the controller isn't optimal, but I will now be able to optimize it. If the controller is perfect, and the wind speed >! wing forward speed, to trajectory should theoretically be a straight line. 

However I think I can safely say the landing precision is already great enough: 

That day, I also did a second test that isn't on the video above, the test was also successful, and just for you, here is the video: 

The name of this video is "fly me to the ground" in reference to the song "fly my to the moon" by Frank Sinatra. Now that the system is working great on a short flight, we can dream bigger: "Fly me to the ground" will be the official name of R2Home's first high altitude mission. 

You will find on github the latest kad and kod for this operational version. I'm still working on more documentation. 

And finally here is a composite picture of R2Home: 

R2Home will fly higher, on a model rocket or on a stratospheric balloon I don't know yet, but that's also what's cool! 

Everything is possible!  

Thanks for everything, for your support and your interest! 

- Yohan