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• Develop small fixed wing plane!

  Secondary purpose

  • Target 4kg (or lessish?)

  • Target 6S

    • high thrust to weight seems optimal bc we can get away with more mech wise?

  • Dual flight controller mount

    • support pixhawk and ZP3 mount on the CG as flight controller

• Primary purpose

  • testing EFS milestones milestones​ M2 and M3

  • testing EE ZP3 hardware designs

• • initially use with pixhawk to have mech validate functionality?

    we can also do

    try not to consume lots of mech bandwidth here

    • Updated version of a foam plane

    • Buy an off the shelf thing for this?

  • it will for fixed wing pilot training with pixhawk with this to prepare for pilotting Big Fixed Wing 2025

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    as houston is to pegasus hopefully this platform can be to Big Fixed Wing

• Primary purpose

  • testing EFS milestones milestones​ M2 and M3

  • testing EE ZP3 hardware designs

• Secondary purpose

  • provide practice with block diagrams and system engineering for EE which seems needed after last year’s lack of detail in final arch log.

• Who

  • Meghan Dang up to run integration for EE side of ZP3HW

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• What this isn’t

  • This won’t be a learning platform for Big Fixed Wing 2025

  • This won’t be composites

  • It will just be a more advanced foam plane than we’ve built in the past.

    • The Twin

      • this is the foam fixed wing we’ve flown in the past to test ZP, had issues with wingspar and reliability so we’re looking to upgrade this year!

    • • Feedback on the twin design is that the wingspar broke and motor mounts were unreliable. battery mounting was the crumple zone and all components being taped were difficult.

  • it will not use to have mech validate functionality