That Won't Fly

That Won't Fly Follow the progress of Lafayette's Aero Design Senior Project Team The team consists of seniors at Lafayette College who are majoring in Mechanical Engineering.

The team will be competing in the SAE Aero Design East competition in Fort Worth, Texas from March 15th-17th, 2013. TEAM MEMBERS:
Louis Hayden (Faculty Adviser, Pilot)
Kevin Doty (Project Leader, Co-Pilot/Back-Up Pilot)
Mike Adamson (Fuselage Lead)
Andrew Ruck (Payload Lead)
Jonathan Morgan (Wing Lead)
Andy Rose (Landing Gear Lead)
Bill Hendra (Empennage Lead)
Michael Tsai (Electronics/Controls Le

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Seth Katz (Propulsion Lead)
Andrei Koch (Wing)
Ross Perry (Fuselage, Payload)
James Dorsey (Fuselage, Payload)
Eric Docknevich (Propulsion, Balancing)
Alex Caballero (Propulsion, Empennage)
Mike DeGirolamo (Empennage, Finite Element Analysis)

04/15/2013

We will be presenting our work and talking about our success at Lehigh University this Wednesday in front of a number of professional engineers and students. Hosted by the Lehigh Valley Section of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers). Lafayette's rocket team (Pards to the Stars) will also be presenting.

03/22/2013
03/20/2013

Crash/Failure Compilation

03/17/2013

Final results: Out of 39 teams, we came in 11th overall. We carried the 9th heaviest payload of 16.5 pounds. Out of U.S. teams, we came in 6th place overall.

03/17/2013

Flight round 6 (final round): Attempted to lift 24.5 pounds. The plane barely left the ground before sinking out of the air and back onto the ground. Disqualified.

03/17/2013

Flight round 5: during our pre-takeoff engine run up, our throttle servo became unresponsive. Had to take a disqualification.

03/16/2013

Flight round 4: even heavier payload and it was a success! Looking very promising right now.

03/16/2013

Flight round 3: we suffered some very minor damage but we had a successful flight with an even heavier payload. Currently flirting with a top 10 position.

03/16/2013

Flight round 2: most teams experienced even more crashes. Collisions with trees, wings snapping off in mid-air, and nose-dives into the ground. But we were able to successfully fly a payload without crashing! Things are looking really good so far.

03/16/2013

Flight round 1: A lot of planes have crashed, but ours flew successfully! Very very windy down here.

03/14/2013

We made it to Burleson, Texas.

Fine tuning our presentation at 6:30am
03/14/2013

Fine tuning our presentation at 6:30am

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