Next Flight Test

@Smile Khatri

Saturday at 10am - Autonomy Houston test and Peggy 2 Range + Speed test, join the flight test thread and add your name to the doc if you want to go!

Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

Next Work Session

• Saturday at 11am!

• Looking at scoop design prototype

• CAD work

• For bootcampers, you can come to work sessions for help with your bootcamp

Other Announcements

@Alison Thompson

• We have decided we will be competing in AEAC this year, please read conops:

• Plz fill out team roster form for this term! Mandatory for joining the team, complete this AFTER your bootcamp! We will NOT assign you any tasks, give you the bay code, or review your designs until this is done!

  • Microsoft Forms

Comp Design Direction

@Alison Thompson

• General design changes for Peggy 2 will be added payload and angled landing gear

• Angled landing gear will let us more accurately land centered on the barrel

• Examining 2 payload options, working on both in parallel:

  • Simple pump design

  • More complex scoop design

Pegasus Electronics Cases

@Alison Thompson

• Monster Mount V2 updates? @Camilo Artigas Alos

• Finalized the design, currently printing it and tolerancing it.

• PDB Case updates? @Keegan Jeewan

New Task:

Pegasus Frame

@Alison Thompson

• Clamping Arm Block Improvements updates? @Agapa Goombs

New Task:

Peggy 2 Payload

@Alison Thompson

• Scoop Water Tank and Collection Design updates - @Conall Kingshott is working on this, @Alison Thompson to give updates

New Tasks:

Tracking Antenna

@Sohee Yoon

• Planning to water jet the angle limiters this week

• @Agapa Goombs how’s the baseplate stabilizer going? Tracking Antenna Revival

  • The plate modifications are done, as well as new posts with potential bearings added to the post assemblies → concern with sizing for the waterjet plates (45 cm D but the limit is 30 cm)

  • We’ll prob need to order (or find if we have them already) ball bearings for this

Eclipse (Fixed-Wing) Airframe

@Evan Janakievski

Close to being finalized.

• Need to work on integrating the fuselage and the plan for that.

• The motor and camera mount is being finalized by @Arnav Gupta

  • @Calum Chisholm, the fuselage will need a new shape as the front of the plane is being changed from the adjustment of the motor mount

• There may be some machining tasks when this is being constructed for those interested

Open

Wings

@Nathaniel Li

• @Sohee Yoon got materials ordered: balsa came in, waiting for ultracote and monokote

• Continuing with FEA study on ribs?

• Rib spacer progress? @Sam Wong

• Aileron progress? @Sam Wong @Agapa Goombs @Keegan Jeewan

  • I’ll setup a meeting for us to discuss

  • We made some progress with our approach of taking the existing ribs, separating them according to the dimensions in the aileron sizing, and adding a 2-spar design. Want to take another look at the CAD on the weekend to finish up the hinges, finalize the spar dimensions/location and final assembly.

Fixed wing landing gear

Fuselage

@Sohee Yoon

• @Victor Sun how are the fuselage panels going? Fuselage Design (update here pls)

Ground station

@Smile Khatri