With lockdown in the UK scheduled for another two-and-a-half weeks at least, I am as bored with diarising the fact as I am with the government's lack of preparedness... the response to any crisis in the UK invariably being a rallying-cry to save property-owners in London, along with their bankers.
To suit reduced circumstances however I have down-sized the prototype with a view to flight testing, and the foot-print (discounting the propellers) is exactly your feet square. The box itself remains a foot-and-a-half square although it is reduced to two feet in height, as it may were it to accommodate someone of around four feet in height themselves, which is what I figure the mannekin to be without being able to take the measurement.
One decision I make today as that it is not, after all, worth flying the prototype 'as is' with just four motors up top, as we've done that already albeit under a different arrangement. It therefore behoves me to fit a pair of skids as per the registered design, and to get it wired up with all eight motors as illustrated i.e. with four up top and four down below.
Only this way ~ reflecting an apparently unique configuration in the world of drones ~ are we likely to prove anything much at all, and not least the notion that one day it might safely fly pilots from A to B.
This leaves me two propellers short, however, they being casualties of the trip to California.
But then Rome wasn't built in a day, was it?
