fly through Atlantic ocean

   Here's the site of the first (and as far as I know the only, so
far) model airplane to fly across the Atlantic. It was widely
discussed on many newsgroups when it succeeded in 2003:

http://tam.plannet21.com/

There's very neat.  I had no idea a plane so small could carry enough fuel
to run for 38 hours and make it across the Atlantic!  I would have guessed
it would have been done with a solar powered model plane.

Who who's going to build a land based robot to travel across the country on
it's own?  Or a boat to sail itself around the world?

--
Curt Welch                                            http://CurtWelch.Com/
curt@kcwc.com                                        http://NewsReader.Com/

Facinating questions/suggests Curt. There are still many ways one can
distinguish themselves in robotics. Opportunities for world records
abound.

--
Randy M. Dumse
www.newmicros.com
Caution: Objects in mirror are more confused than they appear.

http://www.ensica.fr/microtransat/Iboat/index.htm
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~br/CbotWeb/rb98.html
http://engsoc.queensu.ca/sailboat/
http://taros.mech.surrey.ac.uk/papers/Sauze_Neal.pdf

People are certainly trying...

Later,
Jon

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   Jon Hylands      Jon@huv.com      http://www.huv.com/jon

  Project: Micro Seeker (Micro Autonomous Underwater Vehicle)
           http://www.huv.com

Very cool!

--
Curt Welch                                            http://CurtWelch.Com/
curt@kcwc.com                                        http://NewsReader.Com/

These guys did it a few years before Maynard Hill's crew did, but the
plane weighed too much to be called a model: http://www.insitu.com

As I remember, it was only about 10 pounds over the the definition.

Bob