Pre-Meeting Notes

Questions

• Alignment on Fixed Wing 2025

  • Renamed pages in 2024-2025 Program Outline to align with ideas

• Will this plane be a similar design as our comp drone? Should we decide on a rough comp drone design before starting this project?

  • will not be icarus sized fuselage

• Design around sensors and electronics, create a full list of every electronic part and their mounting requirements first.

• Optimize for space, the fuselage has to be small and aerodynamic.

• Custom battery? Should we look into this for this platform?

• For reference hacked together diagram for future Pegasus can be found in Big Quad 2025

Engineering Decisions

• Wingspan

• Weight

• Number of props

• Prop/motor locations

• Motor type

• Tail type (V-tail, elevator/rudder, inverted v-tail)

• Landing gear (wheels?)

• Manufacturing methods

• Simulations

In-Meeting Notes

• “small-ish fixed wing” is main fixed wing for mech prototyping

  • “big” and “small” fixed wing docs in 2024-2025 Program Outline were merged together

• Don’t mix EFS and mech testing

• Flight characteristics analysis

• Modular design

• One frame for mech, one for EFS. Validate EFS plane with Pixhawk first.

• Compare different fuselages/payloads in sim and in real life

• Make list of sensors and mounting requirements

  • Device Manuals<- for each device requirements should go as subpages to this

• Start with a plane motor that we have

  • AT4130

• Iterative design process needed to specify motors, props and power system?