Introduction
Develop small fixed wing plane!
Target 4kg (or less?)
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
Secondary purpose
initially use with pixhawk to have mech validate functionality?
we can also do fixed wing pilot training with pixhawk with this to prepare for Big Fixed Wing 2025 .
as houston is to pegasus hopefully this platform can be to Big Fixed Wing
provide practice with block diagrams and system engineering for EE which seems needed after last year’s lack of detail in final arch log.
Meghan Dang up to run integration for EE side of ZP3HW
Related Resources
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.