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.

  • also timeline for getting it ready

  • pictures of aircraft would be appreciated.

Logistics

• Sunday the 21st

• Aiming for WRESTRC

• Hoping to have all systems checked in the morning and fly in the afternoon

• Attendees

  • Smile Khatri Driving, some photography, and

  • Meghan Dang : Pilot

  • Daniel Puratich : Admin, Second Pilot

  • Someone for media?

Flight Plans

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

Warmup

• Daniel fly quad to get Meghan comfortable with the video feed

• One pack will be ~6 min flight time

Flight #1

• 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

Flight #2

• Daniel flies foam plane

• get a feel for aircraft

• loop and figure eights

Flight #3

• Meghan flies foam plane

• Daniel flies quad same time

• figure eights

Debrief

Media

• DVR

• Pictures

Description

• what happened?