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.
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It's probably about time that I say something, so here goes.
In terms of actual progress the completion of phase 1 was a pretty fulfilling experience seeing as it really pissed me off in its initial stages. The transgression into phase 2 is just as my colleague says; in its infant stages whereby the physical airframe needs to be constucted from twinwall, sintra and cabon fibre alike.
If I decide to grace this blog with my presence at some point in the future, and thats a big IF, i'll probably be updating this progress sheet with intel on the electronic side of the project.
At this current moment in time the autopilt system is to be installed using the ardupilot system. I have recently come into possession od the various processor boards, GPS Modules and airspeed indicators but for the time being it seems that the airframe is going to require more attention.
And that's about it...
So long.
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