SPONSORSHIP BROCHURE15/16
OUR TEAM
EST 2014
Founded in 2014, with the aim to comepete in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Design Build Fly competition, the University of Glasgow’s Design Build Fly team’s first competition was in Tucson, Arizona. Being our first competition there were a lot of unknowns, but our willingness to learn and expand is what helped the team achieve a report score of 92.5% ranking 12th out of 100 entrants and a final rank of 19th.
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THECHALLENGE AIAA DBF 2016 THE PLANE WITHIN THE PLANE
17 -19 April Wichita,KS
Organized anually by the American Insititute of Aeronautics and Astronuatics, the AIAA DBF is a prestigious competition that aims at gathering students from all over the globe to give them a chance to test and showcase their engineering capabilities. Held in Wichita, Kansas, this year’s competion is nothing like last year. The challenge lies in designing, building, testing and then flying two aircraft in time for the competition. One of the aircraft must be able to carry the other internally with the lowest possible weight and number of sub-assemblies. The internally carried aircraft must then be assembled and fly a payload of its own, a 32 oz. bottle. This will test the team’s management, technical abilities and resourcefullness to its maximum.
Following last year’s success, expansion was one of the team’s main future goals. Deteremined to improve over last year’s performance the team is now larger, with 23 members from across different engineering and non-engineering discpilines. It is also important to note that the members range fromt undergraduate to postgraduate levels. The team faces many challenges this year including the need to manufacture two aircraft instead of just one and having to do so in a short period of 6 months. Equipped with the technical knowledge and engineering skills, the team aim to achieve outstanding results by sharing this knowledge.
TIMELINE SEP’15 TO APR’16 Coming up with the opitmal design isn’t all about engineering, it’s also about following the competition’s rules which makes design even more challenging. Devising a strategy is also part of it as the ultimate goal is to achieve the highest possible score
conceptual design
Sep
recruitment This project would fuction as it should without a good team, and that’s why we look for self-motivated team members who are willing to take intiative and learn from the project
Oct
The first qualifying stage is the design proposal which all teams have to submit to the competition’s oraganizers. It contains a summary of the team’s management and design. Submitting a sucessful proposal qualifies the team for the next stage
design proposal
Nov
preliminary design After all the necessary planning and strategy is set, the conceptual design must be refined to ensure its suitability for the missions and confirm its feasibilty. This is when the design starts taking shape, taking one step closer towards being applied
Dec
This is when the idea starts actually taking shape, every element of the design is carefully considered to carry out the task as effeciently as possible. The result is an elaborate design with a manufacturing schedule that gives time to build, test then refine the design as needed.
The last milestone before the flyoff, the design report which is detailed documentation of the design proccess from the conception of the aircraft up to its exection and manufacturing. It is crucial to score high on the report as it determines the team’s rank in the flight queue in addition to being part of the final score
detailed design
Jan
Feb
prototype Because no idea is perfect, building prototypes is essential to put the developed theory to the test. Building a prototype is crucial as it helps team refine the design, enhancing its preformance and improving and increasing the chances of acheiving higher scores
design report
Mar
Apr
flyoff
Taking place between the 17th and 19th of April in Wichita, Kansas , the flyoff is the real challenge and the ultimate test for the design.
SPONSORS &EXPENSES PAST AND CURRENT SPONSORS
15/16 BUDGET 15% material 10% tools
26% accomodation
49% flights
SCORES &NUMBERS 92.5%_Report Score 12/100 _Report Ranking 2000_man hours to build 8000_kilometers travelled
14_battery packs used* 4_servos 2.3_kilogram payload 0.9_kilogram power system 1.2_kilogram aircraft 19/85 _Final Ranking
SOCIAL MEDIA Documenting and sharing our project is very important to us. Our social media accounts are there to update our followers and let them know what’s happening. Our mission is not only to learn but to spread the knowledge and get people interested in aerospace.
www.ugdbf.co.uk fb.me/ugdbf @ug_dbf instagr.am/ug_dbf google.com/+ugdbfuk flickr.com/ugdbf
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we accept both financial and material support as our aim is to produce the best possible aircraft and experience for our team members.
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