Well, today has been a pretty good day so far. I was up late last night working on resolving all the dependencies for Ecosynth to run on RedHat/CentOS. I got it to compile and today I will find out if it actually works. I also got a fan controller for Big Deac so now it sounds less like a vacuum and more like one of those little white noise generator's outside of your therapist's office.
The bigger news, though, is that our newest aircraft made its maiden flight this morning.
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| The newest Zephyr in the fleet, complete with a wonderful looking black and gold Monokote livery |
The plane is a Zephyr 3, like the others, but is setup somewhat differently. Instead of the Ritewing secret sauce motor we have a Turnigy 3420 1250KV driven by a secret sauce ESC. Elevons are controlled by Hitec HS-5245MG servos. This setup provides boatloads of power and good control. FBW settings from the other Z3s are a little sluggish on this one but thats nothing a little tuning can't fix. Finally, you'll notice the Ritewing GoPro and FPV camera box on the nose. This is nice as it will allow us to run a GoPro for video recording and a more reliable FPV camera for the live feed.
So, now it is off to start getting gear ready for the trip to Belize; departure is bright and early Friday.
