We are now officially hired by the school! This means that we can drive down to Florida for competition as soon as we reserve the vans!
Monthly Archives: October 2016
Meeting with Keith
October 20th: We met with our pilot, Keith and discussed our preliminary designs with him! It was great to hear his insight and learn from him. We need to edit our designs slightly, but overall we are on the right track!
Update 3
Officially registered
Began engine testing!
Different types of propellers to be tested
Meeting with our pilot next week: TBD
Update 2
We have a list of things to order after meeting with Joe to test out the Engine! We had to make a makeshift fuel pump because the one that the AeroDesign team usually uses broke last year at competition!
Alison is looking into different types of positioning systems for the telemetry to use and comparing the weights of them!
Christine plans on finishing her landing gear calculations over break so that she can move on to her design! She also plans to come in on Monday and work on prototyping payloads!
Olivia is working on determining the center of lift for her airfoil. She is also putting them into Solidworks now!
Chris wants to start modeling the tail! He also plans to ask Keith about the responsiveness of the last few planes.
WE ARE GOING TO FLORIDA!!!
This morning we registered for the advanced class of the competition! It was a very stressful morning- we had 6 computers for 5 team members! We made it in before the waitlist and all was well! Our payment went through initially so we didn’t need to stress after the initial waiting time! WOOO! We are going to Florida!