Last flight test

• Successful Houston autotuning

• some compass issues

• couple bolts came loose off the landing gear mid-flight, added longer bolts with a lock washer

Upcoming Team Events

• Nothing in the next while

Job opportunity

Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

Other Announcements

• Save comp 2025 electronic cases in comp 2025 folder

• 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!

  • Microsoft Forms

CONOPS Preview

Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

• 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

• 2024-07-16 Competition Architecture Sync

Mech meeting time for fall term

Smile

• Mech meeting Fall 2024 - LettuceMeet

• Meetings might run until Aug 21st, not 100% yet.

Ansys sponsorship

Smile

• Received Ansys sponsorship last week

  • access to commercial version of Ansys

• 10 thermal, and 25 Fluids/Structures license stored in same server as PDM

• Setup guide: Ansys Products Setup Guide - Mechanical - WARG (atlassian.net)

• Open

  

PDM

• Updated server desktop on the weekend, anyone still having PDM issues?

• Solidworks 2024 Installation or Update Guide

Antenna Tracker

Justin

• @Justin Liu updated the spacer rod to be about 9 mm - shaved off 4.5mm

• @Sohee Yoon Planning to work on the upper base plate redesign and antenna holders this weekend.

• Target end of August

Fixed wing empennage

• research papers, we have rough idea of size Empennage Design

Frame

• WIP

• 1/2” box tube

Wings

@Sohee Yoon

• @Sohee Yoon currently still working on the Balsa ribs (will hopefully get a CAD done this week) but I was considering manufacturing options and we could try utilizing the laser cutter. This way we will be able to create some complex designs. The RPC laser cutter cuts up to 9.5 mm thick pieces. If that’s too thin we could glue two pieces together

• @Nathaniel Li is also working on a separate design (a more easier manufacturing design)

• adding more support at the leading and trailing edge to prevent concave issues

• go with box aluminum tube for the spar

• 5mm current thickness for ribs

  • 2-3 mm common for large planes around 1-2 meters

• 0.23 m chord len

PDM

New task

• Motor + Camera Mount