Month: March 2019

After our successes last week, we were confident that we would be ready to fly on Monday. But we had a few final tasks we had to complete before we could fly. The outer shell of the parachute test payload needed to be completed. This is the payload that we will drop from the FTS…

Part 2 here. The new receiver and servo arrived, allowing us to continue our work on the parachute system for Project Redirect. After installing these parts, we were once more ready to test.  Our first test revealed new problems.  Even after the upgrade, the servo still had trouble releasing. Also, the new springs made the…