The Runway Files #177–67%
Today was my mom’s day off, and because of Tihar she doesn’t have to go to work for the whole coming week. That’s rare for a health worker’s family. So it was not much of an ordinary day. I woke up, got ready, and my mom came back from her night shift with bhakka, which I ate. Then we planned what to do. We weren’t leaving until after 12 pm, so I saw a gap and used it.
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In that gap, I may have finalized the BIRD’s pod and legs structure in CAD. I say “may” because the design hasn’t been validated against real-world constraints yet. So far there are only simulations, run on assumed and regular values, and things like wind aren’t accounted for.
I wasn’t satisfied with that, so I ran a Monte Carlo simulation, and it showed 67%. That’s still not a yes. But it tells me the physics is leaving room for takeoff. This all work didn’t finish before 12, I went back to it in the evening to complete it.
Besides that, at noon we went out to buy Tihar gifts for my mama and other relatives. In the evening I watched the NPL match between Kathmandu and Lumbini. After dinner we went for a long walk, and that was the day.
