It’s a parafoil with auto-pilot! Power harvesting is a fascinating and tricky game. To help ease the transition away from batteries, [Jasper Sikken] developed a solar harvesting module that ...
Parafoil-type canopies develop both lift and drag by using ram-air pressure to inflate a fabric-composed, cellular-structured, low-aspect-ratio wing; these varieties are capable of significant ...
Here you can see one of the tests, where the payload is guiding its descent using a parafoil. Directional control is possible with a parafoil simply by shifting weight between the two supporting ...