I now have two wing membranes the are attached to the wing spars. The body is made and I have purchased most of the radio gear needed – powerful servos and so on. Tomorrow I will start to fit the complete wings to the body.
Category: Feathers
Making up the wing spar
From my PhD results I have values for the flexural stiffness of each wing bone. I have scaled these values to half size and am making up bundles of carbon fibre rods to replicate these values. It’s a bit trial and error. First I measure the stiffness of the individual rods (by clamping samples to…
Back to work
After a long silence – trip to South America, sailing, catching up… I have started on new wing membranes for the he pterofly project, and a new wing spar to make the pair. Carbon rods coming any day and now just confirming the membrane properties by making up samples for tension testing.