Heath Robinson
I'm an ex-flying tecchy and admit to having no qualifications that suggest I should speak on the subject of AAR so please be gentle.
Why can the basket not be given more intelligence in the form of microprocessor controlled, retractable flight surfaces which provide directional stability and counter excessive airframe turbulence. From what I've seen, the baskets are ringed with lights so power of some sort is available to drive such surfaces and even if the power failed they could revert to a non-powered configuration.
(I'm still thinking basket and flexible hose but with boom type fast retraction and no operator). In short, I would have thought that the same technology that drives the vanes of a missile could be programmed to drive the vanes of a basket.
Perhaps it's all been tried before for all I know.
I'm done - standing by for incoming.
Imagegear
Last edited by ImageGear; 7th Jan 2013 at 05:11.