2023-11-08 Mechanical Meeting

Flight tests

@Nathan Green

Flight test this weekend was successful. Monster mount worked and notch filtering was set up. There will be another test this weekend for autotune.

Prop Arm Clamps

@Nathan Green

• Requirements discussion

• Status check

• Assigned to @Aric Quan

Frame

@Conall Kingshott

@Jonathan Di Giorgio has finished up the clamping blocks, these may or may not have been installed on the drone.

Battery Shrouds

@Conall Kingshott

• I (Conall) messed up the first molds on Andy

• Materials for new mold are ordered and will be ready to do layups by Saturday likely.

Cabin

@Alison Thompson

Cabin is looking great! Looks like we’re ready to order CF tubes from composites canada and get started on making layups for the first revision! I will do a final look over the CAD tomorrow and then we should be good to go.

Who is interested in helping with layups?

Open

• @Evan Janakievski Skeleton

  • Length of the cabin was updated to 330 mm

  • Clearance holes for the mounts were added to the base plate

  • Evan will work on getting drawings done so we can manufacture PEEK inserts

• @Sohee Yoon Aero-Panel Mounting

• @Georgia Vachon Westerlund Added aero-panels to cabin assembly

  • Created a bent version of the front/rear panels to be included in the assembly (avail. in PDM)

  • Added all panels to the cabin assembly and mated them to the outside of the mounts

    • Used 20 deg bend angle was chosen since the 30 degree angle resulted in the cabin extending beyond the edge of the airframe base plate → the angle can be modified easily as needed

  • Added M3 clearance holes to the side panels in accordance with the mount placement

  • One thing to consider: we were originally going to have the front/rear panels bend into the cabin, but this may be difficult since the carbon fiber tubing and mounts are so close to the end. Need to discuss this further.

• @Jason Li Seat CAD? Seats !

• @Wallace Lee any updates Cargo Compartment ?

• Next steps:

  • Cabin and cargo bay layout (seats, cargo hold, windows, etc)

  • Door integration for cargo and passenger bays

  • Will look into assigning and outlining tasks for these by next meeting

• Don’t want a separate section but do we wanna start looking at transport jig?

Work Session

@Conall Kingshott

• Work session Saturday at 2:00PM