As If You Thought I Have Not Been Working

So I have been trying to get some interesting pictures of the layup of the Big Baby fuselage. However, the pictures that I do have are not as demonstrative as I would like. I guess I will have to get down there and take some myself. All in all, the mold concept worked and the internal, integral structure also seems to be pretty successful.

Our idea, is to mold a certain amount of internal structure into our composite molds. The interest is to reduce production time of aircraft to the limit of curing and finishing time. More advanced resins could be used in the future. Our experiments are with normal 60 and 90min set air-cure epoxies. We also used a male mold to reduce our total investment. Surface finish is less than important to see for these experiments. They are about the viability of integral structure composite lay ups. I have said that last bit a few times, but I have received several comments about this.

The next step is to relief the wings so that they make a pocket, lift system that will effectively create a similar cross-section to the metal equivalent airframe.

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Motors, motors, motors

Did anyone else ever notice that anything truly important must be said thrice for men to notice? Girls, girls girls, XXX, I have a million examples. Just an aside, but interesting to note. That may be why no one ever reads DANGER, and stays away, Or don't click.

This week I have been fighting the forces of evil all week. I know the buzzlabs.us site is not a work of art. It is a work in progress. Yeah, yeah need more pictures. Let's get one step at a time. I found several distributors of NEU motors whose website said, yeah they are in stock. Seems that they need to update their site? WTF still are not online with inventory status... or are not advertising things correctly. If you don't have it, just say so.

Anyway, there I was thinking I had the NEU motors in hand 1912/3Y jobs. however, it seems that there is no such thing as in stock with these guys. They are supposed to be the best. I have been reading that the heli guys dig the X-Era motors from NC too.

I called Dave at X-Era. He was friendly and very helpful. I will keep up with his 4035 3y 400kv motors. He is actually sizing a motor for us to swing these huge props. I am actually pretty curious what he will come up with. The NEU calculator came up with the 1912 line of motors because of the three bladed props. I will post what he says when I get back his response.

If anyone knows of any 5-6 bladed props that would be good to know too. I heard on the boards that Dario makes them. It is my opinion that I can slow the prop down enough by adding blades to lower our planes and reduce the current draw by adding voltage. I would love to get our current draw to 20A at 9s (33.3V) our batteries would last for a lot longer. I think maybe Bolly Props down in Oz may have them, but three bladed jobs though.

What I am Thinking At the Moment

At the moment, I am trying to decide what is the most interesting way to proceed with this blog. It is important to discuss some of the howto aspects of UAVs and autopilots. I think that it is also important to speak about some of the interesting applications and business difficulties of it as well.

At the moment, there are many stories in the news about blowing up bad guys with thunder bolts from the sky. However, I think that this is not the most interesting thing to be done with the technologies. We are investigating a number of small-scale recycled materials and techniques to apply energy reclamation systems so that the uavs harvest as much of their energy from the environment and recycle as much as they can.

For the record, the soybean epoxies available are just not as good as their petro-chemical equivalents. We are still trying to use them in our skin layups. If we can make use of them, they do come from a renewable resource stream. These adhesives are not recyclable though.

Another big idea, that Buzz Labs is working on is the heat pipe system to pull heat away from the motors and batteries and either use that to generate trickle charges or to be able to cool the batteries to a point that we can keep their chemistries from over heating down to the limit of their endurance. Lithium-polymer (LiPo) batteries do have some physical limitations that make exciting failures possible. Read about the exploding notebook batteries. Buzz's engineers are seeing some success with maintaining battery temperatures even above their rated currents. Battery performance increases are especially good news for the racers and autonomous vehicle systems

We will keep you posted here as we make significant breakthroughs or cool flaming rc parts.