{"id":229,"date":"2012-10-14T18:06:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T18:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/?p=229"},"modified":"2012-10-14T18:06:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T18:06:21","slug":"introducing-the-bormatec-vamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/2012\/10\/14\/introducing-the-bormatec-vamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing&#8230; the Bormatec Vamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/vamp_21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-230\" title=\"Bormatec Vamp\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/vamp_21-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/vamp_21-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/vamp_21-224x150.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/vamp_21.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAfter careful consideration, I&#8217;ve decided to invest in a Bormatec Vamp as a flying UAV-Testbed. It&#8217;s got a 1.8m wingspan, and an all-up maximum weight of 2.5kg; plenty of room for around a kilogram of payload. After doing a little math, it&#8217;d cost me about 3x as much as this to purchase the equipment to manufacture an airframe to the standards that I&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n<p>At a cost of about \u00a3130 delivered to the UK from it&#8217;s German manufacturers, it&#8217;ll arrive as a kit of parts; assembly will be documented herein.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More pictures and information as soon as it arrives!<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information on the Vamp, please refer to it&#8217;s manufacturer website, listed below- also the source of the included image.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bormatec.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=88&amp;Itemid=91&amp;lang=de\">http:\/\/bormatec.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=88&amp;Itemid=91&amp;lang=de<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right! After careful consideration, I&#8217;ve decided to invest in a Bormatec Vamp as a flying UAV-Testbed. It&#8217;s got a 1.8m wingspan, and an all-up maximum weight of 2.5kg; plenty of room for around a kilogram of payload. After doing a little math, it&#8217;d cost me about 3x as much as&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/2012\/10\/14\/introducing-the-bormatec-vamp\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,19,10,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}