2024-10-31 Mechanical Meeting Minutes

Date

Oct 31, 2024

Attendance

@Smile Khatri

@Alison Thompson

@Camilo Artigas Alos

@Thushanth Parameswaran

@Georgia Vachon Westerlund

@Nathan Green

@Ben Lovegrove

@Sam Wong

@Shawn Henry Dragon

@Megan Spee

@Sohee Yoon

@Justin Liu

@Jievan Tapajna

@Agapa Goombs

@Calum Chisholm

@Jack Doehler

@Sam Sayad

Sacha

 

Team Announcements

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Next Flight Test

@Smile Khatri

Next Work Session

@Smile Khatri

  • Mech work session at 3pm

  • Carbon fiber wet layup!

  • Wings manufacturing session which will be led by Nathaniel

Other Announcements

@Alison Thompson

  • Snacks!

Updates

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Comp Design

@Alison Thompson

  • Good progress on pump design

    • @Megan Spee can you update?

  • Scoop design CAD to be done by Nov 3rd

  • Angled landing gear looking good!

Eclipse Airframe

 

  • PDM errors cause delays

  • Will have edits ready for Nov 3

  • Edits consist of:

    • Decreasing size of battery plate

    • Finalizing hole locations on spars and tail boom

    • Decreasing overall size of motor mounts

Tracking Antenna

@Sohee Yoon

  • @Agapa Goombs made some great progress before reading week. I read through the document and it looks good but I’m gonna check the CAD this weekend (had some pdm issues this week)

  • After the review, I’ll look at any new electronic mounts thoroughly too

Fuselage

@Sohee Yoon

  • @Calum Chisholm updated the fuselage shape and I don’t think we’ll have to worry about the interference you showed in the document since we are planning to decrease the size of the battery plate

  • @Victor Sun is planning to get the fuselage attachment/frames done this weekend and that will be before the eclipse design review

Wings

@Nathaniel Li

  • Running an initial trial of wing manufacturing at this Saturday’s work session

  • Lots of new things to learn for anyone interested!

Empennage

 

  • Servo Module Mount initial design created and uploaded into PDM

  • HT is done , need minor tweak to the design. VT is ribs are done Since VT is similar to HT

Eclipse Misc

 

  • Evan

    • GPS mount will be ready with the rest of Eclipse review @Nathaniel Li

Eclipse Landing Gear

@Ben Lovegrove

  • I changed the cheese holes to be triangles and made them bigger to save water jetting time

  • I didn’t have time to run a sim

PDM Issues

@Alison Thompson

Try this: Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

Tasks

 

  • Two new comp tasks:

https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MEC/database/2690187266?contentId=2690187266&entryId=3e407955-84fb-471e-aa5f-b25e9f48e8f9&savedViewId=96af723e-7587-4107-b690-1ccf37ce5055
  • Two new Tracking Antenna tasks:

Ground station

@Smile Khatri

sacha, sam

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