Last Flight Test

Smile Khatri

• Made sure Pegasus still flies after the break. Drone control seems fine

• Tracking Antenna yaw is working as expected. Pitch not tested because it was not ready

• Flew with passengers on, seat belts worked well

• A landing gear leg broke when pilot landed the drone (drop from 6 inch above)

• Tested the new FPV camera mount, it solved the camera vibrating issue. Shoutout to Nathaniel

Next Flight Test

Smile Khatri

• Last flight-test before comp (which is next week!)

• More pilot training and autonomy path testing

• Testing pitch for antenna tracker

Upcoming Team Events

Next Work Session

Smile Khatri

• No work session in the next couple of weeks due to flight-test and comp.

Other Announcements

Alison Thompson

• Have people introduce themselves! There are new people onsite who may not know each other!

• We had a mech leadership sync before the start of the term, notes can be found here: 2024-05-02 Leadership Mechanical Meeting

• Surveys:

  • If you have recently completed the BootCamp (in W24 or after), please fill this out: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=h1o6cprzIkqSRz_CQMATlohH8WBFXHtOjCR7Pcx0oF1UMlUxNDM1SEJERzdVOTY3NkpTS1pLTFJIRC4u

  • Everyone on Mechanical for any part of W24 (including online!), please fill this out: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=h1o6cprzIkqSRz_CQMATlohH8WBFXHtOjCR7Pcx0oF1UM1RKOThITlFVRVA3S0dESUNVSERQNjRaWC4u

  • These are both anonymous and are to help us find out what we are doing right, what we can do better, and what projects people want to work on!

  • Reminder that you’re always welcome to provide feedback to leads and PMs if you have any ideas or don’t like how we’re running things! We want to do the best we can for everyone

Comp Drone

Smile if he wants, otherwise Alison

• We have decided to fly Pegasus 1 at comp and bring Pegasus 2 as a back up

• This is because there isn’t enough time to thoroughly test the new drone and Pegasus 1 has proven reliable

• Pegasus 2 will be brought up and tested fully after competition, in parallel with some new projects

Antenna Tracker

Alison Thompson / Smile Khatri

• Antenna tracker needed an additional spacer to allow the gears to align as intended, I CADed this and Smile Khatri is working onsite to implement this change

• Yaw was tested this weekend? - Smile Khatri any updates on this

  • Yaw worked successfully

Fixed wing program coming soon!

Alison Thompson

• After competition we are going to work on developing fixed-wing planes with the eventual goal to be making a VTOL

• More info to come on this project (I will be scoping it out in the next few weeks)

• Will combine flight testing with sims to learn as much as we can!