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Week 3

In this lab, we used peer feedback to identify weaknesses in our Believer build and developed a clear corrective action plan. By addressing structural components, that were not complete, and improving our assembly practices. We increased the overall strength and quality of our aircraft, as well as, completed most of the structural build portions of the aircraft. This experience emphasized the importance of attention to detail, teamwork, and following proper procedures during aircraft construction. We noticed many mistakes we made, and had to find a way to work around them while still having a successful build. We will continue applying these lessons throughout the remainder of the build process.

The Main issues identified were that we didn’t glue some of the parts completely. We were hesitant to make anything permanent, afraid of making a mistake. Unfortunately we couldn’t move forward without having these parts glued. Another reason this was flagged was because this is really important to ensure no structural damage to the aircraft while in flight. Many of our issues were structural and procedural. Our group was behind compared to the other groups and we believe this was do to members of our group getting easily distracted, and not wanting to move forward without everyone agreement. Already we are working more cohesively as a groups and making great progress. The feedback we received has been taken seriously and I am confident our build will end successfully.

Progress Made 1/29

We first reviewed the other groups punch list

We glued the two parts of the believer together

sanded down extra glue residue

We glued the landing pads together

aft landing pad installed

foward landing pad installed

Glue residue formed on foward mkost bay for landing pad

Scraped out the residue to ensure the pad can fit securely.

Secured two fastening hooks for the wings on both side

We guled the control horns to all control

Installing rudervator servos to tail section

Hooks installed on ruddervator

Control horns installed on wings to later be connected to servos

Venky overglued the control horns so we now need to remove Venky from the group

We screwed screws from the black thing into the white thing ( assembly of servo linkages)

Installing servo linkages to tail section to later attach to the ruddervator

Seeing how motor will fit into motor mount to prepare for soldering

Adding push rods to the tail to eventually give movement to the ruddervator

Left off here

We still have a lot of work to do in order to finish our build, however, we took the feedback and accepted it gratefully. We worked through majority of the feedback we received. The only thing our group deemed unhelpful was when they mentioned that our engine mounts were wrong, and after communication with Anestis we realized there are two parts to the engine mounts and we have it correct. Due to time we couldn’t get to any of the soldering, and most of the wiring. We got to installing the surface control to the servo via mechanical linkage.

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