2023-03-20 Meeting Notes - Unique

Lead Self Nominations

Conall Kingshott

• Megan sent out a form last week

• It closes tonight, if you are interested, please fill it out

GrabCAD

Conall Kingshott

• Every CAD file we use for anything WARG related at all needs to be uploaded to GrabCAD.

• Exceptions: There are no exceptions

General Reminder

Conall Kingshott

• Please don’t be afraid to ask questions

• If you aren’t completely sure you should be doing something, reach out to Megan and I. Especially if it’s something irreversible like drilling, filing, dremmeling, etc competition parts

Cornflakes

Alison Thompson

• # Didn’t crash! it looks great! AGAIN!

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  feedback/action items from flight debrief:

  • Vertical Stabilizer needs reworking for stability

  • Camera mount for next flight test (get Camera info from Anthony Luo ) Arjun Mandair

  • Push motor and power solution to be evaluated @ Icarus sync

Competition Frame updates

Conall Kingshott

Cabin - skin, main cylinder build Conall Kingshott

• working through cabin integration

• Skin is going to attach to foam ribs using velcro

  • Andrew is working on this, getting extra ribs machined

Front support bar

• Exists now, thanks Andrew Wright

• May look at a redesign in the future, but not top of the list

Stiffener for Battery Compartment - Hrishik Patel

• Design done, ready to be printed

Landing gear - Alison Thompson

• Fits well, stiffener cross-bar definitely needed

Nose/tail - Andrew Wright

• Need to look at coating the existing foam ones

Bay door - Vishal Jayakumar

• Updates?

CV camera mount - Arjun Mandair

• Modifying for clearance after test fit?

Go to the icarus syncs (TUES 9pm) to stay up-to-date cross subteam

Flight tests and comp simulations

Megan Spee

Flight test this saturday March 18!

via flight test channel - “the plan is to test that cornflakes can fly reliably in a fixed wing configuration, as well as gather some preliminary battery life data.”

another flight test March 18

lets not crash x2

Tracking antenna

Megan Spee Andy Zhang Jason Li

How’s this going Mech - Tracking Antenna

CAD looking good. Notes from Conall:

• Looks at using bearings on the pitch stage

• Double check you are using cont rotation servos

• Needs more fleshing out for all component mounting

back to weekly meetings!

Megan Spee

happy midterm week over for most of you!

ICARUS synchups - happening on tuesdays weekly, 9pm

General meetings - thursdays @ 8pm

you all know this. just a reminder, cause we’ve been off for a while

omnipresent safety reminder

composites room for any fiberglass and carbon fiber (CF).

PLEASE be safe lol. these are carcinogens

don’t do this if you don’t feel safe!
paint room for spray paint!