Design Build Fly - An Overview

In Fall 2008, as part of the senior design class required by the University for graduation in Mechanical Engineering, the UK Design Build Fly team was created. This group, made up initially of 11 seniors, quickly expanded to close to 30 people. The goal was to compete in a competition which required a plane to be built without the aid of pre-constructed parts (with exception in areas such as motors). With stringent requirements to be met in order to be eligible to compete (Complete Rules can be found at http://www.aiaadbf.org/) the team set-out to undertake this enormous task.

With the competition less than a month away, this blog will serve to give updates to the progress of the team as it prepares for its entry into AIAA's Design Build Fly contest. Please continue to check in regularly for information about our team's progress.

The following are pictures from our early construction attempts on duraplanes done earlier last semester:

The lab

Students Monokoting a wing

Working on the tail

The labs favorite actress

Ready to fly

To see the plane take-off, please visit:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31347822@N04/2935877567/in/set-72157607977664207/

For more pictures of the beginnings of Design Build Fly, you can also visit:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31347822@N04/

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Hello World.