Designing and prototyping a tail-sitter VTOL aircraft for long-distance flight

VTOL aircraft combine the benefits of conventional fixed-wing aircraft (long endurance flight and a large payload capacity) with the benefits of multirotors (vertical takeoff and landing requiring small airfields). As part of this project, I aimed to design a mid-size UAV capable of carrying a 5kg payload while flying with an endurance of 1-2 hours. As part of the design process, I used 3d printing to rapidly prototype the fuselage design.