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Hi CWatters, thanks for your suggestion! We had been carrying out a lot of testing throughout the building process, and we just thought of is there any other approach we can do before carry out the physically testing to maximize the chances of getting the positive outcome we were expected.

Wow! Thanks a lot for your detailed explanation, gjonesy! But we have already done all the calculations part, since the aircraft had been started to build since 2 years ago, but never success in taking off. We had been divided into groups to focus on improving different parts, and this is why I...

Thank you for your reply Nidum! My main problem now is that we're looking for ways to investigate the performance of the pulley, as it was a human powered aircraft, we need a really efficient transmission system. We currently have aluminium pulleys bought from another shop matched with the belt...

Hi. Me and my team are re-building a human powered aircraft's transmission system, and are currently designing the part of the pulley and belt. We've bought the belt and pulley quite some time ago from different shops, thus, we now have to re-investigate whether the pulley and the belt match...