First day of testing our Tricopter VTOL payload delivery vehicle!

The next goal is to get off the ground for a hover test before adding wings for in-flight drone-to-plane conversion. If all goes well, long range autonomous payload missions are just around the corner.

First fire to test flight stack, power delivery, motor response, yaw servo functionality.
Ramped to 10% throttle and tied down to make sure it doesn't go anywhere.

Robit Team:
Noah Schochet - Mechanical design, powertrain, CAD wizard, fabrication, feedback control, duct tape battle medic - www.hire-me-elon.com
Noah McGuinness - Large scale mock-ups, control systems, big-brain math stuff
William Greenfield - Electronics, RC systems, making sure things don't blow up