Last flight test

• Light flight test, no crashes, auto-tuning issues

Upcoming Team Events

• Houston flight test this Saturday!

• Going to run auto-tuning, if it’s successful then more testing with autonomy stuff

• WARG firepit social this Friday at 8pm! Everyone is welcome

Other Announcements

• @Alison Thompson made a copy of Peggy in the comp 2025 folder, please create ALL NEW PEGGY PARTS IN COMP2025! If you have started things in COMP2024, please move to COMP2025 and update file names accordingly.

• We are switching solidworks versions to 2024, please ask @Alison Thompson or @Smile Khatri for the new license! You will not be able to access the PDM server or view parts that have been saved in 2024 on 2023!

• Plz fill out team roster form if you haven’t! We will NOT give you the new solidworks key if you haven’t filled out the roster for this term!

  • https://forms.office.com/r/ka0MJHJQ9D

CONOPS Preview

https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/776618957138034690/1262579540773830760

• Slides can be found in #discussion

• Very early look, and very subject to change. Check out Tuesday night’s Comp meeting to see the team’s thoughts

• https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/x/CAA_n

3D printing

• 3D printer is back!! Please follow instructions in 3D Printing Guidelines and Bambu Labs + Prusa Instructions - Mechanical - WARG (atlassian.net)

  • If you want to print something, it may be safer to do to using the warg desktop since it is connected to the printer via internet. It will show which filaments are loaded in the AMS.

Weatherproofing

• CAD has been reviewed

Electronic Cases

• Need to get cases finalized soon! EE is working hard to finish wiring, it will be ready soon for sensors.

Antenna Tracker

Justin

• Identified screw holes misalignment in the upper base plate (the plate mounts the antennas and gemini), working on modifying design to a larger plate that so the gemini doesn’t overhang.

• The spacer rod is about 9 mm too long causing tensile stress in one of the aluminium bend mounts (I’ll need to cut that and re-tap it)

• The 3D printed antenna holders are loose due to friction wear, may consider designing a metal one or just 3D print another one (easiest way).

Tasks

• Pixhawk (flight controller) needs to be mounted on Pegasus 2.0. Is anyone interested in this assembly task? (may involve 3D printing?)

  • The mounting CF plate has already been water-jet and is in the bay

  • @Calum Chisholm to do this

Fixed wing empennage

• choosing airfoils for vertical and horizontal stabalizers

  • where’s our center of gravity gonna be?

  • start with slightly camber for now?

  • more input required for horizontal

  • need to do research on control surfaces

• 2 servos

Fixed Wing Calculator

Fixed Wing Calculator.xlsx

Frame

• moving pixhawk above the wing spar?

  • difficulty mounting the tail

• Mounting servos

  • in the wing

• Motor mounting to the frame

  • Evan to write up a task for this sometime later

• Join Evan and Alison in discussing the frame tomorrow at 9pm EST

Wings

• Balsa ribs, monokote wrap

PDM

• Throw CAD into Design-thread and @Smile Khatri will move it into PDM using warg desktop

• Control surface for roll axis to be worked on by @Nathaniel Li and @Sohee Yoon

New task

• RPI 5 mount RPI 5 Mount