After finally completing phase 1 of our project, we can safely move onto the next stage. The test flights so far have been relatively successful, with many of the failure stemming from my inability to fly. But hopefully that should be remedied soon.
We have decided on the shape of measurements of our phase 2 plane, and I will try to put some designs up (it was derived from the design mentioned in the last post) and hopefully it should work out well. I'll be crunching some numbers on the numerous handy flight calculators online, to just check that we haven't made some horribly fatal errors.
So far we've made the basic fuselage shape, using some 5mm sintra for the cross-sections with a balsa wood spine (pics coming soon), and we'll be skinning it with twinwall, sintra, or whatever material satisfies both the weight and strength conditions. Once that is done, we should be making the wings, again with sintra cross-sections, and 2mm twinwall for the actual wing itself, and putting a telescoping carbon spar to keep the wings level.
