We finished the fuselage spine (and we cut a few more holes in it to allow for cable management). We've been working on some foam nosecones and underbody to take the landing, but unfortunately a certain someone made a right mess of it. Anyhows, we'll probably be evolving it into an acrylic nosecone for a FPV camera mounting.
As far as the wings ar concerned, the most of the wing ribs have been completed, shaped and sanded to size, but we've still to add weight-saving holes and a hole for the carbon spar to go through. After that it's a case of putting them on the spar and skinning it with some 2mm twinwall. Once that's done, we have the nightmare of attaching it to the fuselage, a problem presented due to the lack of foresight on my part. I was initially hoping for some kind of removable wing attachment, but that dream is long gone...
After that, we've to sort out the control surfaces, and I've got a pretty good of how the ailerons are going to work, as well as the elevators. We've also acquired some new hardware, as our previous electronics were, well, a bit cheap (and they definitely won't be able to cope with the bigger airframe).
The MQ-5 Hunter by Northrop Grumman definitely seems like the kind of plane I want to see our project evolving into (on a different scale of course, and our ribs below definitely seem quite amateurish compared to the months of research and development that went into the Hunter).
