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• Foam plane doesn’t have a flight controller, but does have a 5.8ghz video system.

• Meghan Dang plz add a basic outline of the hardware on this drone.

• Hardware

  3S battery

• 12V-5V buck

• camera

• video transmitter w/antenna

• servo controller w/antenna

• esc

• 4x servo motors

• 1x small motor w/prop

• Timeline

• Start Date

  • July 9th

End Date

July 21st

pictures of aircraft would be appreciated. Meghan Dang

• Specifically for all control links and video stuff, datasheets appreciated.

Lead Up Construction Timeline

• ~ July 9th

  • Assembly Start

• July 9-12

  • created electrical harnesses

    • battery splitter

    • buck->pdb

• July 15-17

  • determined working servos

  • fastened electrical components

  • mounted servos & motor

    • cut and bent wire for screw pin horns

    • mounted screw pin horns

• July 18-19

  • troubleshooted receiver & video system

  • also timeline for getting it ready

  pictures of aircraft would be appreciated.

• July 21st

  • this FT

Logistics

• Sunday the 21st

• Aiming for WRESTRC

• Hoping to have all systems checked in the morning and fly in the afternoon

• Attendees

  • Smile Khatri Driving, Plane Thrower, & Ground Videographer

  • Meghan Dang : Foam Plane Pilot

  • Daniel Puratich : Admin, Second Pilot

  • Ahmed Saraj: Photography

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We are limited to only a few 3S batteries so targeting three flights if all goes well! .

Warmup

• Daniel Puratich fly quad

• Goal is to get Meghan Dang comfortable with the video feed quality and range bounds

• One pack will be ~6 min flight time

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