Engineering softer landings (drop testing)

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In this video we'll be drop testing the nose gear of the DarkAero 1 prototype. The goal is to simulate a bad landing in a safe and controlled manner so that we can verify that the nose gear will perform as expected before we proceed into flight testing.

Before we drop the nose gear to see how it performs, we'll take a closer look at the gear design, the test rig, and discuss the importance of this test.

0:00 - Intro
0:40 - DarkAero 1's Mission
1:56 - Nose Gear Engineering
4:46 - Why Drop Test The Gear?
6:20 - Test Setup
8:07 - Testing Results
10:00 - Outro

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