The goal of this project was to design, build and fly a micro remote-controlled aircraft to participate in the 2022 SAE Aero Design West Competition. The competition imposes challenging design constraints on the aircraft which must carry large or small cargo boxes and payload weight while being limited to a 48 inch wingspan, 450 watts of engine power, and an 8 foot takeoff distance from a raised platform. The final design configuration used large wing control surfaces that extended beyond the wing trailing edge to serve as both flaps and ailerons and a movable wing to increase stability. Although the aircraft experienced stability issues on take-off at the SAE micro class competition, the team placed third overall due to high design report and oral presentation scores.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Schoepke, Justin
• Miholovich, Connor
• Pitkowsky, Samuel
• Chadwick, Christian
• Van Sickle, David
• Tomer, David

Subject

• Industry
• Innovation
• Project-Based Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 64521
• E-project-042722-162310

Keyword

• Propulsion Design and Analysis
• Aerodynamic Design and Analysis
• Stability and Controls Design and Analysis
• Aircraft Design
• Structural Design and Analysis

Advisor

• Yuan, Zhangxian
• Olinger, David J.

Year

• 2022

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Not Specified

Date created

• 2022-04-27

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Aerospace Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright