I re-visit a previous notion (search 'jury rig' here) armed now with the knowledge derived in recent days regards how to put this thing together. The drones now feature brackets around the outside corners of the centre-body with which the passenger booth can be secured with an external set of tie-rods.
The nice thing about transferring the load to the outsides of the structure (as the engineer Peter Rice pioneered with iconic buildings like the Centre Pompidou in Paris or the Lloyds of London headquarters) is that it is flying-friendly and in many ways takes us back to the earliest development of bi-planes, when you'd 'kick a tire and twang a wire' prior to flight.
A by-product of this development so far as the drone is concerned is the the payload can be swapped out for what is effectively a 'spacer' that separates the two drones ready for wiring and subsequent flight-testing.
It therefore references Rolls Royce's own vertical-lift test-bed, with the exception being that the drone here is as yet uninhabited. This I can accede to fairly readily, the original "flying bedstead' having accounted for at least one Wing Commander during flight trials.
The prototype is thus ready for delivery and officially 'ex-Works' as of today, from whence it will be transported upon the roof of the Jimny to the project's electrical engineering facility.
