Fully Autonomous Talon Launch (hand thrown)

First test of a fully autonomous 'throw' launch. I activate the autopilot, wait 2 seconds for the throttle to begin spooling up and then try to throw it wings level and 10 degrees nose up. The autopilot immediately seeks 10 degrees pitch up and steers towards the starting heading (when the autopilot was activated.) Once sufficient airspeed is attained, the aircraft switches into airspeed/altitude hold mode (TECS) and climbs out. You might notice my hand and arm protection. This is just a leather glove (OJ style) and a soccer shin guard strapped to my arm. (Coincidentally I played soccer the night before so it was still somewhat sweaty) :-)

[deruhu]

Finally found what I was looking for! I'm currently building a talon 1400 and was curious how dangerous the prop in the back really is. The talon 1400 doesn't have a nose in the back to give a bit of protection and i certainly don't want to be hit by a 13" prop spinning at over 10000rpm (t-motor AM480 is truly a beast). Have you ever bin struck by the prop in the back? From the comments it doesn't seem like that big of a problem? Or should think about alternative ways to Launch? Like a trolly or something like that?

[valkyrie_workshop]

Cool! What's the glove? I am thinking about regular welding gloves just curious if a strike would happen how much it's gonna protect. I've seen a very fatal injury with high RPM small prop. Fingers looked like after egg cutter lol, definitely don't wanna risk any prop strike 😅