How is the Hover Fly assembled?
A. All Hoverfly airframe assembly is done by hand, with meticulous attention to quality at all stages. Many key components are tested several times during the assembly process. Every finished Hoverfly is then individually test flown and balanced for smooth flight where necessary, just prior to packing. This is why you will sometimes see a small weight made from special black putty, attached to the rotor next to one or more of the motors. Materials have been very carefully selected to optimise weight, strength and reliability, with no less than nine different plastics being used. When we recently found that a component was prone to wear, it was re-designed using a new material, and exhaustively tested. This eliminated the problem completely. The Electrocyclic Control Processor circuit boards are assembled using the very latest in automated component placement robotics. Parts are positioned and automatically checked at a rate of over 20,000 per hour! Finished boards are then re-checked f
