Armadillo Aerospace Log: 08/08/04
On Tuesday we did a very successful set of hover tests with the
big vehicle. I had two changes that I wanted to test: an optional
PWM of the throttle movement to make it change position slower when
it was in hunt-for-an-acceleration mode, and testing a 50% gain
increase which I might enable during high speed flights if it looks
like it is having a hard time controlling the attitude. I had these
set up momentary overrides on the joystick, so I could lift the
vehicle up, engage the change, let go real fast if it isn’t
working, then try the other one, all on a single propellant
load.
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