Archived Small Fixed Wing 2025

Owned by Daniel Puratich
Last updated: 2024-06-06
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Summary

As of this is merged into was origionally a part of .

Outdated Info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

  • 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

    • 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 design

    • integrate ZP

    • test flight