Team Picture With Glider
Glider Design
From the original constraints we, changed things on the Main tab such as; the wing location from 19 to 10.81 then changed the vertical location from 22.87 from 22, then we also took the nose mass down from 10 to 5.12. Then we kept the wing the same. we then went to the Stabilizer, we changed the span from 20 to 9.6 and the leading edge sweep angle from 30 to 15.07. Then Finally we went to the vertical tail, we changed the height from 8 to 11.45, then root chord 5 to 5.75 and the last thing we changed was the vertical tails leading edge sweep angle from 30 to 27.31
Glider Design PDF
Benefits of Computer Based Models
Using the Aery32 software, gliders can be created and evaluated in a very quick and easy manor, this would be ideal if you needed to come up with ideas quickly and or couldn't afford to make a mistake on the design, because this program would help you efficiently create a design and make it clear the constraints and layout of the glider once its finished. using the PDF files it shows even more clearly how your glider was made, and all different values your glider contains.
Glider Build Pictures
Glider Construction
Knowing how to draw out and cut out the specific pieces of your glider was essential to making your original design a reality. If you made errors in the length, width or overall shape your glider would not become what you want it to be, also keeping your glider together was another challenge, if it broke you had to find out how the best way to fix it is.
Glider Final Picture
Flight Data
Conclusion Questions
1. The term; Aft was difficult to understand at first until changing the position of our wing which made the program no longer tell us to move the wing more Aft.
Definition: at, near, or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an aircraft.
2. A challenge someone else would come across making our design would be how to place the wings or vertical stabilizer, whether to put them on top or on the sides of the aircraft.
3. The Aery32 program was difficult because it almost forced you into certain designs depending on what you changed first, and when you changed something it would correct you and tell you to do something different, my group found that just following the program would be the best for our group.
4. The second design challenge was even more difficult because you had to take an already made design even better, and the difficulty with that was the program made it very difficult to change anything, because it would give you loads of things that were wrong but no positives.
5. Our glider was not effected by the second challenge, our score remained the same
6. Having a proposed idea and a set plan will ensure the project goes in one direction and wont need anything else, so a base is set for funding.
7. Having the proposed design will help shape the entire project in the right direction, however other things may go wrong, small errors that can be corrected still by the original proposed design.
8. The simple design we created, the design was very basic and seemed very reasonable
9. Positive because they would see the simple and good design we created and rather do that than an overly complicated or bad design
10. Our glider was not as stable as expected at first, eventually we got it to where we wanted it but the Aery32 program made it sound like our design was going to be very very stable, it gave us a very high score so we had high expectations.
11. We changed the weight of one of our wings because our right one was the heavier than the left one, we also changed the weight of the nose to better balance the weight and cause a very slow descending flight.
12. We tested it about 20 times before we actually took it to record our distances, at first we couldn't find the right weight to balance our wing, so our glider was continuously crashing which was discouraging at first but we finally got the weight we needed which fixed out biggest problem. This was not expected, again because the Aery32 score was so high we expected it to be quite easy to get long distances.
13. Strengths: it causes groups to want to make their design better and fly further, but it could also ave negatives: because it could discourage someone who's glider doesn't go as far, or doesn't fly as smooth, or fly at all.
14. As said in earlier questions, our score was very high, and then our glider did not fly at all at first, which was discouraging, but we eventually figured out the issues through flight testing and got the results we wanted.
15. For long distance flight, gliders needed to be much larger, the bigger the glider, the longer the distance, and that isn't in all cases, but assuming the glider was stable and had a good weight balance, the larger ones tended to go further than the smaller ones.
Definition: at, near, or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an aircraft.
2. A challenge someone else would come across making our design would be how to place the wings or vertical stabilizer, whether to put them on top or on the sides of the aircraft.
3. The Aery32 program was difficult because it almost forced you into certain designs depending on what you changed first, and when you changed something it would correct you and tell you to do something different, my group found that just following the program would be the best for our group.
4. The second design challenge was even more difficult because you had to take an already made design even better, and the difficulty with that was the program made it very difficult to change anything, because it would give you loads of things that were wrong but no positives.
5. Our glider was not effected by the second challenge, our score remained the same
6. Having a proposed idea and a set plan will ensure the project goes in one direction and wont need anything else, so a base is set for funding.
7. Having the proposed design will help shape the entire project in the right direction, however other things may go wrong, small errors that can be corrected still by the original proposed design.
8. The simple design we created, the design was very basic and seemed very reasonable
9. Positive because they would see the simple and good design we created and rather do that than an overly complicated or bad design
10. Our glider was not as stable as expected at first, eventually we got it to where we wanted it but the Aery32 program made it sound like our design was going to be very very stable, it gave us a very high score so we had high expectations.
11. We changed the weight of one of our wings because our right one was the heavier than the left one, we also changed the weight of the nose to better balance the weight and cause a very slow descending flight.
12. We tested it about 20 times before we actually took it to record our distances, at first we couldn't find the right weight to balance our wing, so our glider was continuously crashing which was discouraging at first but we finally got the weight we needed which fixed out biggest problem. This was not expected, again because the Aery32 score was so high we expected it to be quite easy to get long distances.
13. Strengths: it causes groups to want to make their design better and fly further, but it could also ave negatives: because it could discourage someone who's glider doesn't go as far, or doesn't fly as smooth, or fly at all.
14. As said in earlier questions, our score was very high, and then our glider did not fly at all at first, which was discouraging, but we eventually figured out the issues through flight testing and got the results we wanted.
15. For long distance flight, gliders needed to be much larger, the bigger the glider, the longer the distance, and that isn't in all cases, but assuming the glider was stable and had a good weight balance, the larger ones tended to go further than the smaller ones.