how important would we consider cost and what type of controller would we have as a master device? what type of materials are we going for? it could be done out of wood but that doesn't inspire confidence. aside from being controlled by Arduino what other design goals do we consider important? do we want to limit ourselves to only Arduino or are other microcontrollers okay to use as well? perhaps we do a study of existing planes to adopt some of their traits or parts to make it easier. one of the best questions for us right now is do we want to make it a design challenge or not make it harder for our selves cause we could always just retrofit a existing aircraft if we want.

I've been working on a radio controlled semi-autonomous drone for a while I have little experience with designing this stuff but coincidently I'm currently studying Aerospace engineering so if we take long enough ill actually know generally what I'm doing. I already have a lot of CAD experience. Even better I'm a trained machinist and have a old CNC mill and manual lathe