We enjoyed ourselves at the studio, didn't we, but then life's not all beer and skittles and it's time to replace our plywood motor-mounts with something more substantial. I note that I've been too economical with the length of the cantilevers and the upshot is ~ and this is the benefit of prototyping in the absence of computer aided design ~ that the X-braces leave less clearance for the propeller arcs than is desired.
Accordingly I set the axis of each motor on the inside edge of the cantilever an inch from the end, and fix an angle alloy to suit. I shall also file off the surplus alloy so that it matches the outline of the motor, for the sake of posterity: one day this will hang in a museum, as do two of our previous prototypes.
An advantage of offsetting the motors this way ~ and one from real-world experience of shifting these airframes around like furniture ~ is that it insets the propellers and thus protects them to some extent when the airframe is parked up against a wall or rolled on its side. Note the templates we are using, too. These were screen-saved from T-motor's tech spec and imported into Apple Pages where they were sized to suit prior to printing.
As I do all of this too, on the radio Seal is singing how, "In a world full of people only some want to fly, isn't that crazy?".
And he's right, isn't he?
