Univ of Arizona AIAA Design-Build-Fly competition testflight pictures and video

[teryn]

Paffy, I'll speak for the Univ of Arizona plane. There was a lot of theoretical engineering design that went into the plane before it was built. This design process is more rigorous and traditional than typical ARF designs that we fly for fun. A lot of theory, optimization scripts and codes (Matlab, Vorlax, Fortran, etc) were used to design the plane under a variety of constraints, while still being able to perform the mission/payload/flight profiles of the competition. The fuselages are bulky because of the bulky payloads (a simulated Pitot probe and camera/imaging system) that AIAA requires us to carry. The plane is not designed for looks or superb flying qualities. It is a final compromise based on a variety of contraints. There is even a requirement for it to fit in a certain size box, and the time it takes to get it out of the box and ready it for flight.

There is more info buried in here on the requirements: http://www.ae.uiuc.edu/aiaadbf/

	Quote: Originally Posted by paffy
	Why are the fuselages so bulky then ? Why are they so short ? You have these oversized vertical stabs and in the video, it seems like most designs have very marginal directional stability. Also, it almost seems like at certain AoA, the yaw->roll->yaw couplings are reversing the ailerons ! Why the huge vertical cabanes on of the biplanes ? Do you expect to fly in knife edge, so you can utilize it for lift ?? I have to go enroll in some aeronautical college for a semester, so I can build one P.

[Dangerous Dan]

cool deal when will a winner be announced?

[teryn]

I believe sunday night at about 5:00 at the field, immediately following the competition.

[Dangerous Dan]

can somebody post it on here. I wish my college did this competition University of Texas at Dallas, is there any schools in the North Texas area that do this or offer a aviation type degree my majior is physics

[Dan_nO]

still done the same thing, went to the forum home page

[teryn]

I will post the final scores and the pictures that I will take at the competition.

	Quote: Originally Posted by Dangerous Dan
	can somebody post it on here. I wish my college did this competition University of Texas at Dallas, is there any schools in the North Texas area that do this or offer a aviation type degree my majior is physics

[Dangerous Dan]

Thanks