AIAA Student Aircraft Design, Build & Fly Competition

Abstract

This report is made up of the combined reports of 38 separate teams of students who entered the 2003 Design, Build & Fly Competition. The objectives of the Design, Build & Fly Competition were to have students teams design, build and fly unmanned remote control electric aircraft designed for two of three specific missions: a Missile EW Decoy sortie, a Sensor Deployment sortie, and/or a Communications Repeater sortie. A "fly-off" took place on the Ridgely Airpark Field near Ridgely, MD, in April 2003. Winners of the contest: 1st place, San Diego State University; 2nd, CA Polytechnic and State Univ.-San Luis Obispo; 3rd, La Sapienza University (Italy). The Design, Build & Fly Competition was supported by Cessna, the Office of Naval Research and the AIAA Foundation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 2003
Accession Number
ADA419269

Entities

People

  • Chris Bovias
  • Gregory Page
  • Michael Selig
  • Stephen Brock

Organizations

  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Configurations
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fuselages
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Mechanics
  • Spars
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • STEM Education
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy