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.

• 3S battery

• 12V-5V buck

• VTX

  • https://getfpv-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wysiwyg/files/XILO-STAX-VTX-User-Manual-compressed.pdf

• camera

• video transmitter w/antenna

• video receiver

  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qO7xaTNgOI2nmxWrKGW9yGg3KSiuDLMx/view

• servo controller w/antenna

• Controller

  • https://manual.edgetx.org/color-radios/model-settings/inputs-mixes-and-outputs

• esc

• 4x servo motors

• 1x small motor w/prop

• pictures of aircraft would be appreciated. Meghan Dang

• Specifically for all control links and video stuff, datasheets appreciated.

Lead Up Construction Timeline

• ~ July 9th

  • Assembly Start

• July 9-12

  • created electrical harnesses

    • battery splitter

    • buck->pdb

• July 15-17

  • determined working servos

  • fastened electrical components

  • mounted servos & motor

    • cut and bent wire for screw pin horns

    • mounted screw pin horns

• July 18-19

  • troubleshooted receiver & video system

• July 21st

  • this FT

Logistics

• Sunday the 21st

• WRESTRC

  • Daniel Puratich has location booked

  • Smile Khatri has vehicle booked

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

  • We have WRESTRC 11am to 6pm

• Attendees

  • Smile Khatri Driving, Plane Thrower, & Ground Videographer

  • Meghan Dang : Foam Plane Pilot

  • Daniel Puratich : Admin, Second Pilot

  • Ahmed Saraj: Photography

Flight Plans

We are limited to only a few 3S batteries so targeting three flights.

Pre-flight Checklist

• check throttle is in correct orientation

• check video system

• check all controller inputs

• check mechanical/ee systems are secure

Warmup

• Daniel Puratich fly quad

• Goal is to get Meghan Dang comfortable with the video feed quality and range bounds

• 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?