R/C Mirage 2000
These videos were shot in Lancieux (France) in summer 2006
and show the first two flights of Yann LeCun's Mirage 2000,
powered by an electric ducted fan.
- wingspan: 66cm, length 99cm
- mass: 490g with battery
- propulsion: GWS EDF 65 with Feigao motor
- battery: 3-cell LiPo Apache 1800mAh.
- material: the wing is a single piece of 6mm Depron, the nose
section is carved in polyurethane foam, and the fuselage is
a piece single sheet of 3mm Depron curved in shape with a heat gun.
The EDF nozzle is a section of "Badoit" sparkling water bottle!
- Design/Construction: Yann LeCun, summer 2006.
Pictures of the Mirage are available here.
These are AVI files compressed with the DivX codec.
Windows users may have to download the DivX codec. Linux users
can watch this with mplayer (using the lavc codec).
