The quadcopter controllers arrived – specifically, a pair of Spektrum DX8s.  They’re complex-looking things, with numerous switches and dials.  They also have a sweet screen that will (as I understand it) display telemetry data.  I put in a requisition for the telemetry bits today, and these should be the last of the reqs for phase 1.

This is Tess holding the DX8 box.  If you’ve ever worked in an institutional or government context, you know that “getting things” takes a fair amount of work.  There are forms to be filled out in triplicate, arcane budget strings to be chanted, quotes to secure – much crossing of t’s and dotting of i’s.  Tess did the lion’s share of this work, and I am very grateful.  Thanks Tess!