With final assembly and testing set for the second week in May, some deliberations in the run-up (and reasons to avoid embarking on similar projects of your own if you can possibly do so). In fact in answer to the question, 'Do you ever feel like throwing in the towel?' my answer is 'Only on a daily basis'.
Necessity is though the mother of invention and the four motors we currently (!) have are insufficient in themselves to raise the payload, which is why we'll need four more at the base. A decision has been made though to address all eight motors to steer the vehicle, albeit from a single controller mounted up top.
The upper drone has been reverted to alloy at the cost of extra weight, and with both drones now doing the steering we cannot afford undue flexure in either, and thus the lower drone might need modifying in the same way too... at cost of extra weight again.
There is an option to equip the top or bottom drone with larger motors and propellers ~ an example of the flexibility of the design itself ~ although a factory just along the road here seems able to provide square carbon-fibre tubes that are of course the Holy Grail for makers of mega-drones like myself.
It was of course only a matter of time, though with Jetson calling upon the services of super-car manufacturer Koenigsegg to provide their own carbon-fibre parts, the move is better made sooner rather than later.
