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Veronica Martinez Aerospace Engineering

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In this project we had to come up with a design in Foilsim and work with the dimensions the program gave us until we could find a glider design that would be able to fly. We had to work with lift and drag and calculate the velocity our glider would have. Once we had a suitable design that was in our constraints we could start building! We were given balsa wood and we were to measure and scale our parts. After this we sanded it down and started to put the pieces together. We then had to test fly our gliders to see how many yards they could fly straight and smooth without crashing into the wall. I had to work with the nose mass until I found mass that flew well and the farthest mine got was 23ft. You will be able to see my glider design in these next pictures.

AERY Evaluation Number: 116 Fuselage Length: 30.00 cm Wing Location: 010.92cm Stabilizer Location: 022.00cm Vertical Tail Location: 022.00cm Mass at Nose: 1.80g Center of Gravity Location: 016.30cm Neutral Point Location: 016.70cm

Wing Span: 30.00 cm Wing Root Chord: 04.76 cm Wing Taper Ratio: 0.87 Wing Tip Sweep Distance: 04.51 cm

Wing Leading Edge Sweep Angle: 15.79 degrees Wing Aspect Ratio: 07.17 Stabilizer Span: 009.00 cm Stabilizer Root Chord: 08.00 cm Stabilizer Taper Ratio:1.00 Stabilizer Tip Chord: 08.00 cm Vertical Tail Height: 004.50 cm Platform Area:0026.06 Vertical Tail Root Chord: Vertical Tail Taper Ratio: Vertical Tail Tip Chord: cm^2 05.79 cm 1.00 05.79 cm

Estimated Mass: 016.97g

Flight Angle of Attack: 07.38 degrees Estimated Stall Velocity: 17.84 km/hr Estimated Glide Angle: 03.91 degrees (positive downward) Wing Span: 30.00 cm Wing Root Chord: 04.76 cm Wing Taper Ratio: 0.87

Vertical Tail Tip Sweep Distance: 00.00

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learned a lot about how much weight can affect the flight. Even if you go over by a decimal it will create much more drag and completely destroy your lift. As you can see in the numbers I was able to build a working glider and stay in the constraints I was given.