Design Build Fly Team

The AIAA UNSW Student Branch is putting together a team for the prestigious annual AIAA Design Build Fly competiton held in the United States.

The AIAA through the Applied Aerodynamics, Aircraft Design, Design Engineering and Flight Test Technical Committees and the AIAA Foundation invites all university students to participate in the Cessna/Raytheon Missile Systems Student Design Build Fly competition. The contest will provide a real-world aircraft design experience for engineering students by giving them the opportunity to validate their analytic studies

Student teams will design, fabricate, and demonstrate the flight capabilities of an unmanned, electric powered, radio controlled aircraft which can best meet the specified mission profile. The goal is a balanced design possessing good demonstrated flight handling qualities and practical and affordable manufacturing requirements while providing a high vehicle performance.

To encourage innovation and maintain a fresh design challenge for each new years participants, the design requirements and performance objective will be updated for each new contest year. The changes will provide new design requirements and opportunities, while allowing for application of technology developed by the teams from prior years. [source: www.aiaadbf.org/]

What next:
If you are interested in joining our team have a look at the video below for a taste of what the competition entails and fill in the expressions of interest form.

Timeline:
Below is the initial team timeline for 2018:

2018 Rocketry Team Committee
Team Lead	OPEN: contact us if you are interested	Team Photo Coming Soon
Propulsion Head	OPEN: contact us if you are interested
Avionics & Payloads Head	OPEN: contact us if you are interestedc
Aerostructures Head	OPEN: contact us if you are interested
Construction Head	OPEN: contact us if you are interested
Operations & Flying Head	OPEN: contact us if you are interested