Landing Gear
Designed and made by
Connor Stritzel
Designed and made by
Connor Stritzel
The landing gear are going to be adjustable legs with special pins that lock into place to prevent the legs from falling out.
The landing gear being adjustable was thought of and is intended to be able to have multiple different heights simular to crutches someone gets after they break their leg. Our landing gear will have a minimum of 2 set positions, Test flight/standard flight and Mission Flight. Test Flight/Standard Flight are when we are flying the drone without the droping device, and the legs will be at their shortest length in this configuration with a length of aproximatley 6 inches. The Mission Flight configuration is for flights when the dropping device is attatched to the drone, the length of the legs for this config will be aproxametly 12-14 inches.
The pins that will hold the legs in place after they have been adjusted for the desired flight configuration, will have special desined caps that twist and lock into place. This design choice was taken and inspired by Nerf Gun Barrels. Nerf Gun Barrels have a special design on how they twist and lock onto the gun, that style of locking was what was chosen to lock the pin cap to the pin to prevent having to use things such as cotter pins to hold the legs in the desired place.
After a breif thinking period and redesign, the idea of adjustable landing gear was scrapped and the choice for fixed landing gear was chosesn due to the impacts of landing and the weight that the drone would be putting on the landing gear. Below are images of the landing gear in Solidworks, The slicer used to 3d print things and the finished printed landing gear on the drone.
Test Prints
Landing gear full prints
Print in solid works
Print in slicer
Full prints on drone
Landing gear on the drone
Another example picture