The design report

The nose section of the fuselage consists of a smaller nose rib connecting to a fuselage
basic rib with two longerons, a 4mm paulownia top plate and two centre plates. The
centre plate runs throughout the fuselage, only stopping at the centre of the back
tapered tail section of the fuselage. This is to ensure that there will be no geometrical
twist in the fuselage body when assembling the whole fuselage.
The connection of the nose rib to the fuselage body was simple. It was then found out
that the thrust the motor was producing and the torsion it produces was a little too
risky for the connection to be left alone. This is because other than glue, there was
nothing there to stop the nose rib from popping out from the connections. The team
then decided to drill two tiny holes near the edge of the nose rib and tied wires around
it to the other rib of the fuselage. This will then stop the nose rib from moving together
with the motor and away from the fuselage.
Figure 4.1.203: The fuselage body
Figure 4.1.204: Top view
The third rib of the fuselage is connected to the nose landing gear. Its job is solely to
take the load from the landing gear during the landing of the aircraft. This is also as
forward as the battery could move in the fuselage. The fourth rib is there just to add
structural strength to the fuselage. As you can see from figure 4.1.203, there are 6