Timeline for What are the limiting factors when flying a model UAV plane to high altitude?
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| Feb 10, 2016 at 11:31 | comment | added | slebetman | @FreeMan: Remember that while on the ground server rooms have large cooling systems on spaceships and weather balloons electronics have heaters. Electronics tend to like it around 15 degrees celsius ambient air temperature. They start failing above 50 degrees and below 5 degrees. Military grade electronics can be made to work down to -10 degrees but the temperature at 20km is around -30 degrees. Also, stuff like your iPhone and Arduino (the most common hobbyist UAV platform) are not military grade. | |
| Feb 8, 2016 at 20:44 | comment | added | FreeMan | Electronics tend to like it cold, hence the massive chillers in large computer rooms. Batteries, however, don't like producing electricity when they're cold, so that's an offset for an electric motored plane. | |
| Feb 8, 2016 at 8:12 | comment | added | curious_cat | What kind of engine / drive? Isn't that crucial? | |
| Feb 8, 2016 at 2:15 | answer | added | guest115 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 18, 2014 at 4:51 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAviation/status/534569583777030144 | ||
| Nov 17, 2014 at 14:52 | answer | added | Peter Kämpf | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 13:51 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 17, 2014 at 13:49 | comment | added | ratchet freak | when going for high altitude/long duration you would use a liquid fuel (tends to have better total energy storage) | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 13:47 | history | asked | blarg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |