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Mechanical

• Weight Concerns

  • Evan

    • Just under 4 kg (~3.8 kg including batteries off the top of my head) without the empennage, rear landing gear, and all electronics (servos etc)

    • It is possible to shave some weight off the airframe by shrinking the size of the plates down as the bottom one is not only being used for batteries

      • Just need some extra space to move batteries to properly align center of gravity at 1/3 of the airfoil

    • If weight becomes major issues, can remove one battery until other weight saving efforts could be made

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• Wing Manufacturing Concerns

  • Evan

    • Depending on challenge of manufacturing the wings, crashes could be very detrimental in having to do repairs

    • Will learn more about MonoKote as we use it more, which will give us a greater understanding of the positives and negatives of this method

    • WatArrow already did a lot of the trial and error and shifted to foam and carbon fiber tube (from meeting Nathaniel Li had with them)

    • If we aren’t able to successfully manufacture the wings using current method, do we want a backup option that could be done?

Avionics

• Required Boards

  • 6S Servo Module Status

  • Single Servo Driver Status

• Optional Boards Status

  • 6S Power Module

  • Redundant Pixhawk Power Supply

• Firmware Status

  • Have we successfully flashed things with AP_PERIPH?

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