DBF Week 7 Updates

rnluu 2017-2018 AIAA Design/Build/Fly

Hello Everyone! We at DBF are checking back in to update the MAE 189 community of what we have been up to. This past week we were working on repairs of aircraft following crashes during last week’s flight test. In addition to making repairs, we had the chance to complete our initial flight test and obtain information about short wingspans. Going into the test flight, we wanted to understand about the handling characteristics of short spanned aircraft. We achieved our goal by converging on a wing span that was short and still offered control for the pilot. Moving forward, we plan to focus our efforts on component design and development as well as detailed configuration design. We also intend to document all of our progress and decisions to prepare for the design report. Competition season is ramping up really soon!