Challenge One
- Aft-at, near, or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an aircraft.
- The plans do not tell how thick the parts of the glider should be and the fact that it only showed overhead views and no side views with the exception of the vertical stabilizer.
- For creating the glider that it was difficult how to change the width of the wings, stabilizer and the vertical tail. I also thought that the instructions to tweak the measurements after it said that it wouldn't fly were vague and hard to comprehend at times. Including that it seemed like there was no math at all so it was just random guessing that allowed me to get it to fly, I would of rather had it based on the knowledge other than just being able to guess and eventually get it by trail and error and it always asked to move stuff aft that was all the way back which made no sense.
Challenge 2
- The difficulties for doing this challenge were extremely difficult compared to the first challenge. Finding be balance between having the wing and horizontal stabilizer switch where they would normally be located was a completely different challenge in of itself. Even though that was the only problem for this challenge it was an extremely difficult obstacle to overcome.
- The change for the second gliders constraints allowed more room for error it felt like but also created more combinations for the Canard to be styled and created.
Construction and Flight
I flew over 50 ft. multiple times
Conclusion
1. Explain differences between your glider's performance through flight-testing that was unexpected based on the AERY software predicted flight characteristics.
Based on the AERY simulation the velocity was always a constant, while when we actually tested the gliders the velocity differed on different attempts and for other people than for the simulations.
2. Based on the entire flight test data, from every group, explain the conclusion you can make about optimal glider designs for long distance flights.
Based on the data it seems that the bigger gliders were better equipped to fly farther than smaller gliders because of the greater surface of the wings compared to the smaller gliders.
Based on the AERY simulation the velocity was always a constant, while when we actually tested the gliders the velocity differed on different attempts and for other people than for the simulations.
2. Based on the entire flight test data, from every group, explain the conclusion you can make about optimal glider designs for long distance flights.
Based on the data it seems that the bigger gliders were better equipped to fly farther than smaller gliders because of the greater surface of the wings compared to the smaller gliders.