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  • Members: 536
  • Category: Aerospace
  • Founded: Mar 10, 2006
  • Language: English
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This group is dedicated the GFS UAV a flying saucer which uses the Coanda effect to lift off vertically, hover, fly and land vertically.

The 1st GFS model has been built and tested by Geoff Hatton from GFS project limited (UK).

The purpose of this group is to share free ideas, experimental constructions diagrams and tests results for building a true and realiable GFS UAV.

All the data shared here are free (opensource) for a personnal use only and not for a commercial application.

Full construction plan and tutorial at : http://jlnlabs.imars.com/gfsuav/gfsuavn01a.htm

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Another saucer: Not coanda GFS, but it's cool
Another saucer: Not coanda GFS, but it's cool http://www.levitake.de/
 1 Jorge BD
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Coanda Force math illustration
I uploaded some info on how the lift force is generated on the coanda curve.. Under Files and then Coanda Vectoring.. It gives us some method to help design
 2 charliecrummer
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About flaps
Another issue is that: I was wondering about the direction of flight of the GFS based on the position of the flaps. I don't have yet clear this and I also
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Lift UAV public patents
Hello people! This is the *public* patents websites releted to our research:
1 Paulo Oliveira
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Power Supply for GFS a "little bit" expensive
Hello: I found some regulated high current power supplies that could be used in order to eliminate batteries (like some videos of the GFS-Projects people), but
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