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Megan Spee Conall Kingshott Nathan Green Anthony Luo : Working on shaving off aircraft weight
Ethan Abraham looking at datasheet for VTOL as well as Vanny motors to see thrust and continuous operation characteristics
Dhruv Upadhyay Hamza Ali Ayoung Eun : Working on post-flight report
Aidan Bowers (Deactivated) : Working on log analysis and graphs
During flight test notes - the rear right motor was pinned at full throttle (about 95% as described before). Trying to maintain yaw. this was evident in the torquing of the entire frame as well - rear right and front left were noticeably higher than the other corners of the frame.
Both rear right and front left were warmer than normal after landed->disarm. Rear right was a lot hotter. ESCs felt fine and normal.
No ventilation on the motors as they are covered. Drone is very overweight from what we anticipated. Consistently taking off into the wind has given us lots of data on the motor thrust from this takeoff point, and consistently the rear right motor is maxed out.
Warm weather makes it fail faster. In the cold it lasts longer (4:30 min in 1 deg vs … 1:30 or 2 min in 20 deg + sun + wind).