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Summary
As of 2024-06-05 Big Fixed Wing Architecture Sync this is merged into Fixed Wing 2025 was origionally a part of 2024-2025 Program Outline .
Outdated Info
Develop small fixed wing plane!
Target 4kg ish?
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
consume the least amount of mechanical team bandwidth to create a fixed wing that is mechanically stable
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
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
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.
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 and mech knowledge
Next Steps as of early S24
workshop to improve The Twin design
integrate ZP ZeroPilot Integration 2025
test flight