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
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Events & Updates
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...
Update – December 21, 2018
TESTING THE PADDLE SHIFT – December 21, 2018 Our Ground Test Vehicle (GTV) is being outfitted with paddle shifters to compliment the electric shift mechanism just installed. Above, Kevin Abraham is...
Update – December 19, 2018
FINAL TAIL BOOM – December 19, 2018 One more assembly that is being wrapped up is the second (final) tail boom shown in the image above. You may recall that we built an initial tail boom and tested...
Update – December 19, 2018
FINAL TAIL BOOM – December 19, 2018 One more assembly that is being wrapped up is the second (final) tail boom shown in the image above. You may recall that we built an initial tail boom and tested...