So apparently the radios I bought hate me, and have yet to figure out why. If it's beyond me, I'll order different parts and hope future me is a more knowledgeable person.

On the mechanical front, updated the plans to reflect design changes in the overall plane, especially the wings. Links below for the (several) papers I've gone through to inform those decisions.

I figured that stability should be the major concern for the design, seconded by efficiency in flight, which are being addressed respectively by wing design and streamlining the fuselage design.

There will also be a short sequence of tests I'm preparing to assess the performance of electrical systems; namely

• static thrust
• servo response times and jitter
• battery duration at various thrust profiles

I've also been having some interesting ideas for the controller design and ergonomics, which I hope to try out as soon as the design is more mature.

cheers

"The road to wisdom? well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again, but less and less and less" -Piet Hein