We had a great & busy weekend. Let’s let images to do the talking first.
As you can see, our project is getting from being decent to a massive fast. This is just a left envelope, while second is in the development. It took about an hour to inflate and with prevailing winds it felt like being alive (watch video below).
It was overall very satisfying feeling to see envelope’s shape for a first time. There are few deficiencies (found one insufficient welding in a rear part and slenderness of the front part can be better), but hey, its just prototype. 🙂
There are still envelope beans openings missing, main duct needs to be adjusted on its length and potentially some filler material needs to be put in to set it in properly a wedge’s centre, filling valve and pressure monitoring opening needs to be mounted … and all that once more on the other side (25% envelope welding done by now). The plan is to have it all ready to go in next two weeks, while planning for another test next weekend!
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