[Myrddin]

I'm surprised to hear that they come home in one piece. Autonomous take off is easy. Landing requires some real precision instruments to line it back up with the runway and touch down without a mishap. It would be fun to see one of these UAVs on return.

[Travis McGee]

They are packed in a special crate for ruggedness, and are made of a new tough foam for ruggedness on landing. And they are cheap, so the unit deploys with several spares. They employ a pusher prop so landing is not hard on the craft. They launch with a bungee slingshot. Once airborne they fly autonomously to their assigned area. Mid course guidance is done on the laptop to wireless. A unique feature is their orbit mode, where they keep an assigned target in the center of their pattern on video for prolonged observation. The computer does all "flying" chores. It only takes a couple days to train an operator.