2024-10-31 Mechanical : Directors Sync

Attendance

  • @Georgia Vachon Westerlund

  • @Daniel Puratich

  • @Nathan Green

  • @Alison Thompson

  • @Smile Khatri

Progress this term

  • Both payloads on track

  • Tracking antenna done from mech perspective

  • Eclipse lagging a bit → PDM issues

    • Design review next week (delayed due to PDM issues and big flight test)

    • Eclipse progress is slower than we would like → more ambitious than we thought

    • “Final CAD review” probably next week

    • Manufacturing starting after review → about two weeks out

    • Wing prototyping started this week

  • Houston / Dallas progress

    • Mech is maintaining them upon request

    • Maybe need to find someone else to pilot Dallas for atrium cleaning next term

  • Member retention / bootcamp progress?

    • Enough member for what we’re doing right now?

Plans going forward

  • Short term: as discussed in every comp / fixed wing sync

  • Eclipse is not on track for flying at the start of next term

    • Depends if design gets approved next week

    • Can push manufacturing to produce it by the start of this term

    • Plan is: one maiden with tuning, one test for autonomy

    • Want to get flight hours to determine flight characteristics → max speed, current draw at max speed

Action Items

  • Setup at least one subteam social before the end of the term.

    • Maybe after a work session, but just get your team together?

    • Can delegate scheduling out to a member or PM as well, doesn’t need to load leads.

  • Needs to be after work session