ELEVATOR MOD COMPLETED ON TAIL BOOM - January 4, 2021 We finished installing the modified elevator control on the bottom of the tail boom. This is a temporary location, for flight testing only. Our...

SUB-ASSEMBLIES STARTED - Decembver 22, 2020 We have received enough of the parts from machine shops and fabrication shops to start assembling the major portion of the gear reduction to the prop....

ENGINE ELECTRONICS IN THE WORKS - December 30, 2020 Samson's Electrical Technician, Phillip Mikula, has a huge computer screen so he can easily see wiring diagrams, like this one for the 3-cylinder...

ENGINE POSITIONED - December 28, 2020 Today the replacement 3-cylinder engine was settled into the Switchblade engine bay - inside the tube frame and behind the carbon body. Sean Bliss is shown...

FILLING THE GAP WITH GOO - December 21,2020 We are mounting a tube on the underside of the tail boom to run our push cable through. To do that, we have to drill out bolt holes through the carbon...

SWITCHBLADE PASSES BIG SUSPENSION DROP TEST! - December 17, 2020 We completed drop testing our new rear suspension on Dec 4 without any failure, but when we reviewed the film, we saw that the...

TUNING THE SWITCHBLADE SHOCK - December 15, 2020 When we drop tested the shock absorber and rear suspension on the most recent FAA test (second series of tests), we saw that there should be a slower...

ADDING A WIND BREAK (FAIRING) - December 11, 2020 As we mentioned earlier, fairings are shields to smoothly guide air around an obstruction. In our revisions to the elevator control system in the...