Parts Approval: Attempt 1

Banking on our past experience with remote controlled aircraft, we came up with a parts list containing the following:

This was sent to Kanesh (a senior who is now running his own show and is assigned our mentor) to review.

Parts Approval: Attempt 1 Results

After around 3 days, Kanesh came back with the verdict. Overall, he was alright with the parts just that he strongly recommended that we use the Turnigy 9x, as there are sufficient online resources (manuals/videos) for setup/calibration/troubleshooting. Acceding to this request, we altered the parts list accordingly:

Roadblock! $$$ Concerns!

After gleefully adding our items to the Hobbyking cart, we we going to checkout, eagerly expecting shipping to be cheap yet fast. Little did we expect to be greeted by a three figure shipping amount!

We were in for a rude surprise upon checkout!

Alas, we were told by Kanesh to hold our order; he will try to purchase the items for us using his account banking on the hope that his HobbyKing VIP status might grant him a substantial discount.

Just like that, our progress on building the drone has grinded to a halt: grand plans of spending the next week having bonding time in the lab building and flying the Bixler were shelved.