WINNING BY A NOSE – January 25, 2019 The fiberglass nose cone for the Switchblade is now nearly done. We decided to go to a fiberglass nose, as the carbon fiber body blocks radio signal. Flying...
Update – January 25, 2019
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Switchblade Updates
Update – January 23, 2019
FANS ARE IMPORTANT – January 23, 2019 Small things can make a difference, and in this case the small fans shown in the image above will make the Switchblade radiators function better. You probably...
Update – January 21, 2019
WELDER'S VIEW – January 21, 2019 Matt Cook from Meticulous Metal Works continued to help make the Switchblade prototype flight-ready. Above, he is shown welding on radiator tabs in the final...
Update – January 21, 2019
WELDER'S VIEW – January 21, 2019 Matt Cook from Meticulous Metal Works continued to help make the Switchblade prototype flight-ready. Above, he is shown welding on radiator tabs in the final...
Update – January 16, 2019
BEING PUT INTO PLACE – January 16, 2019 The Switchblade, like any powered vehicle, has a lot of parts that go into it. As we get closer to being done, the number of parts increased to the point...
Update – January 12, 2019
GOING VERTICAL – January 12, 2019 The tail had further work done, as we added two small fixed vertical fins to the bottom of the boom. These were for added stability of the vehicle during flight....
Update – January 10, 2019
TAIL ROTATION MECHANISM – January 10, 2019 Parts of this tail rotation mechanism have been shown in engineering program screenshots earlier, but the image above shows the actual workings and the...
Update – January 5, 2019
TALE OF THE TAIL – January 5, 2019 We swung the tail under power for the first time, rotating the verticals and extending and retracting the horizontals in that ballet motion predicted by the...