Hi guys, a brief update on my project thus far - I have modified a NexStar EP to serve as my main UAV platform, and have currently installed a camera, transmitter, and an EzOSD (highly recommended) and will be looking at how to best integrate the autopilot in the next few days. While the NexStar is an excellent platform for carrying payloads and a very forgiving trainer, there are things about it I don't like - for instance, the 300 or so feet required to launch it (I am still using the speed breaks to help with landing).When I return to school in a month or so, I hope to secure funding for, among other things, EasyStar to test some of my more radical ideas before risking the NexStar. I am trying to do as much planning as possible before I ask for a grant, and this leads me to my question.From the instruction manuals I've read over, it seems that the NexStar's two fuselage pieces are intended to be epoxied together once the internal components have been placed. Rather than permanently glue the two halves together, would it be possible to join the two together through a combination of rare-earth magnets and small carbon spars? I've read in another thread here that small magnets like that aren't much of an issue if they aren't moving, and the carbon spars would help keep everything aligned. If anyone's interested, I could make a quick mock-up on Paint and post it.For those people like me who read the stuff at the bottom first: would it be possible to join the two together through a combination of rare-earth magnets and small carbon spars?
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You mean EasyStar, not NextStar, yes? I suppose you could find some way to use magnets to keep the body halves together, but it would be pretty risky and fiddly. What's the point? The advantage of the EasyStar is how easy it is to get to the internal space (and how much of it there is, given the relatively small size of the plane)
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