Introduction

Meghan Dang Has built a sweet foam plane with some engineering guidance from Daniel Puratich
Goal of this test is to how well this flies and get some pilot training in in preparation for the more expensive fixed wing program being driven now.

Plane Information

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
- 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.

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

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

Meghan flies foam plane
Daniel would like to fly quad same time to get some more footage of foam plane in the air
flying in a loop
get a feel for aircraft
takeoff downwind
feel out the battery life, land after 7 minutes to check battery percentage