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First successful copter flight for Eric Principato

By Cynthia Gerlein Safdi
Eric Principato is starting to work in the Caylor Lab as the lab mechanical engineer for Dr. Lyndon Estes.
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Credit: Jason Hawke 🇨🇦

UAV image Eric Principato is starting to work in the Caylor Lab as the lab mechanical engineer for Lyndon Estes.  Eric did his first copter flight training this weekend and picked up piloting quickly, going from zero experience to flying a data collection mission all with zero crashes and no broken copter components in only two days.

Eric did a flight over Herbert Run to collect photos for use in learning Photoscan.

Eric’s 1st Run

Eric’s Post

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CopterEnvironmental SensingLyndon EstesUAVEric Principato

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Cynthia Gerlein Safdi
Cynthia Gerlein Safdi

PhD, 2017, Princeton University, Civil & Environmental Engineering

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