This past week we: Completed our UROP Grant Proposal Began reaching out to companies (Boeing, etc) Completed Design Review Requirements Began Theoretical Modeling Callum Lamb Solar Airplane
Solar Plane Proposal and Initial Flight Conditions
For the past week, we have been working on the UROP proposal to request funding for our project. We have completed the task timeline for the academic year as well as the itemized budget for our project. We have also determined the flight conditions for the Solar Plane for which our first design will be based upon. _Altitude: 5000 ft …
A Quick Start to Solar Plane
The Solar Plane project was conceived over the summer by the project leads. Our main goal is to design an aircraft powered purely by the sun to maintain continuous flight. Our main design challenge will be to maintain steady level flight through the night. Beginning week 0 and week 1 we were on the search for advisors and defining the …