Camille Goudeseune (AMA 734532) started in 2001 with park flyers powered by state-of-the-art Ni-Cad batteries and Speed 400 motors. Within a year, he and Juhan Sonin scrounged some esoteric equipment to fly with a heads-up display, which required the spotter to keep aiming a big dish antenna at the airplane.
On-board non-HUD video followed soon afterwards. From 2005 to 2010, he published sixty airplane reviews and technical articles for Quiet Flyer Magazine (later renamed to RC Sport Flyer). During that time, he also managed several large facilities at the Illinois Simulator Lab at the U of I, including a (non-R/C) flight simulator, and consulted for the College of Veterinary Medicine, building and flying airplanes and multicopters carrying multispectral imagers to automate the counting of cattle in feedlots and infer which ones might be diseased.
From 2010 to 2022, he assisted Prof. Michael Selig with Horizon Hobby's R/C flight simulator FS One®, now distributed as SeligSIM™. In Selig's large sub-sonic wind tunnel at the U of I, he also helped build and test a large array of laboratory-grade flat-plate airfoils, and extended that research to real-life R/C airplanes.
Since 2010, he's been flying mostly e-gliders, suitable for thermaling in the flat American Midwest. His airplanes have occasionally been featured in various columns in AMA's magazine, Model Aviation.
