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Attendance

Mechanical

  • Weight Concerns

    • Evan

      • Just under 4 kg (~3.8 kg including batteries off the top of my head) without the empennage, rear landing gear, and all electronics (servos etc)

      • It is possible to shave some weight off the airframe by shrinking the size of the plates down as the bottom one is not only being used for batteries

        • Just need some extra space to move batteries to properly align center of gravity at 1/3 of the airfoil

      • If weight becomes major issues, can remove one battery until other weight saving efforts could be made

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  • Wing Manufacturing Concerns

    • Evan

      • Depending on challenge of manufacturing the wings, crashes could be very detrimental in having to do repairs

      • Will learn more about MonoKote as we use it more, which will give us a greater understanding of the positives and negatives of this method

      • WatArrow already did a lot of the trial and error and shifted to foam and carbon fiber tube (from meeting Nathaniel Li had with them)

      • If we aren’t able to successfully manufacture the wings using current method, do we want a backup option that could be done?

Avionics

  • Required Boards

    • 6S Servo Module Status

    • Single Servo Driver Status

  • Optional Boards Status

    • 6S Power Module

    • Redundant Pixhawk Power Supply

  • Firmware Status

    • Have we successfully flashed things with AP_PERIPH?

    • Will the eclipse boards be faced with the PB0 challenges as well?

      • Firmware needs to request changes now if they’re needed.

Timeline

  • Are we doing a copper bird as a way to pre-emptively start on wiring and Pixhawk Configuration?

  • Are we too busy with competition stuff to continue the current eclipse timelines?

  • Manufacturing and ground testing timeline thoguhts?

  • Review what I have in Asana.

Piloting

  • Need to select a pilot and start training regiment

    • Simulator time initially

    • foam planes with no autopilot that work well should be built

    • practice line of sight flying mostly

    • Daniel Puratich has de-assigned pilot for maiden role because POR seems to be maiden flight during W25 when I will be offsite.

  • what do we want to do with the fixed wing before comp 2025?

    • Maybe a bit early to be asking the question, but I guess if we're pushing to get maiden done is the reason just to ensure we can all focus on peggy 2 leading up to comp or is it because we wanna try to make more changes and improvements on it before vtol stuff?

  • I am really hoping with the fixed wing we can discover most of the problems/challenges with it just being on the ground.

    • Airfoil will be the big one we cant test on the ground i guess eh?

    • Maiden flight should prolly include an autotune imo. Integrating autonomy system seems excessive.

    • All electronics are for sure ground testable (hence me pushing for a copper bird type setup now).

      • The strapdown test will be nice here to prove out the power train

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