Are the same electronics going to be used in both Gizmo copter and POGO? Remember the teething problems J.C. had with simple connectors and such, vibration and G forces and it only takes one little bitty wire to loosen and you are out of control, so what are the plans to flight test your control hardware? Can you do tethered tests or drop from heights? How incremental can POGO testing be, is it all or nothing?
Sorry for the flood of questions, but I am wondering how you are going to transition from Gizmo Copter to POGO? Are there examples in history of such transitions?
David Masten wrote:
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 22:03, Pierce Nichols wrote:
At 06:49 PM 9/29/2003 -0700, Doug Jones wrote:
Alex Fraser wrote:I'll let anyone else who wants to boast about what they've been working on pipe up :).
Where is the chatter on this list about ERPS projects? Is the ERPS working on any projects? How are things going?I suspect that most of the progress goes on in face to face meetings and work parties, with reports made at the regular meetings. We hecklers only get the side stream on the list :)
Actually, Pierce could also mention the continuing work on getting the Ranch up to code. It is an uphill battle with things falling apart almost as fast as we can fix them. A new hydrant, safety shower, and eye wash station are now a part of the propellants building, and most of the junk that was in the way is moved out to the boneyard. Planning and discussion is well under way for finishing the blockhouse and adding a building for ERPS use near the blockhouse (we will be evicted from the current propellants building at some point in the future).
Dave W has started freezing drug-store peroxide to test his freezer contraption and expects to move it to the ranch to test with real peroxide any day now.
POGO is starting to move faster than the project manager can keep up with. The parts for the tank have arrived and Dan is ready to machine the last few bits for it, but I haven't got the detail drawings printed out yet! At the rate POGO is moving, POGO will fly before Gizmocopter. I hope Pierce's simulator works out well. (I should probably mention to him that it would probably be better to just model POGO. But he'd kill me after having gone through hell getting all the gizmo parts weighed and the propellers torques and forces figured out. Oh well, the missing part for getting Gizmo flying is also a necessary part for flying POGO.)
Dave
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