See nothing here, means generally I'm thinking.
And in the ongoing search for the simplest means of making drones big enough to carry people, I've been puzzling over the easiest way of mounting the motors. This here jibes with the way I've always done it, which is to bolt them directly to the tubing albeit with an extra strip of angle-alloy.
So in this case they're bolted to the perimeter of the framework, whilst the ESCs and battery-packs will remain supported by the centre-piece upon which Monty the mannekin will be sat too.
This extends the dimensions of the framework, along with the track of the undercarriage skids... Can you see what it is yet? Get down, Rolf!
... to around four feet square in fact, a happy proportion to which nonetheless the trailer will now need adapting. Those are 32" propeller disks around a 16" flight-deck.
I'm happy with this, not least because I've all the parts in the workshop and expect to see it in all of its three-dimensional glory in the coming days.
So happy in fact that I have a slice of coffee and walnut cake.
p.s. some of you will be upset because there's an offset in the track of the quadcopter relative to the frame. This can be corrected by a software bias to relieve the pilot of constantly turning left, with the flight-control computer attached to the airframe with the same degree of departure.
