The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Sponsors its Aero Design `92

The Society Automotive Engineers SAE Sponsors its DESIGN 92 UNIVERSITIES around world joined 61 US schools sending top engineering students Daytona Beach Florida area seventh annual Radio-Controlled Cargo Aircraft Competition held weekend May 1-3 1992 Informally called Aero-Design 92 contest sponsored Society Automotive Engineers student club Embry Riddle Aeronautical University engineering students compete weight-lifting challenge similar free flight PAA Load event sponsored now-defunct Pan American Airways part AMA Nationals 1950s became Provisional ALMA event 1968 action took place Golden Eagles R/C Club flying site Deland large full-size airport end closed runway set aside model airplane use location choice flying events Florida Contest Director Dan Abel lots help Golden Eagles club members spouses Members University British Columbia team exult first-place win Most Weight Lifted18 lb Simple model has tail boom rear fuselage As PAA Load event engineering students attempt airliftand safely landthe heaviest possible load over given course within specified limits takeoff flying landing Design limits set well planform area year restricted 1200 square inches stock unmodified K&B 61 engines allowed reversecrankshaft version available wanted try pusher configuration engines sold students special contest price Contestants must use 10%-nitro Omega fuel Morgan Fuels propeller can size must made metal planes expected lift least eight pounds first day Test flights added weight allowed students did test-fly planes until opening ary1993 47 McGill University team Montreal Canada entered Delta design 5-lb MonoKote covered model lifted 1208 lb Plane showed tendency Dutch-roll flight despite its Futaba PCM 1024 elevons Airfoil Reflex R127 two-man team University California Davis took third place overall 1512-lb hoist After working night repair first-flight damage Ohio State University team went lift 1414 lb fourth place overall day contest Does sound familiar modelers Cargo boxes must conform standard weight weight added -lb increments Before flying begins competitors present written report predicting weight design will lift theory put practice weightlifting flights October 1991 university team received invitation complete set rules regulations study before designing building its plane Teams returning members advisors advantage designs ideas have won past repeated among engineering students aint broke dont fix prevails planes take off land within marked area runway 200 feet long Teams have scant five minutes start take off plane required make 360 flight around field land touch down started losing parts isnt easy aircraft couldnt make Some planes top-heavy landing gear steering too high off runway effective ground handling An array composite materialsgraphite E-glass balsa aluminum titaniumwere used achieve strongest lightest airframe possible aircraft surfaces count toward l200-sq-in design limit 10 square inches over limit one-pound penalty subtracted final maximum weight plane has lifted Planes weighed measured before after flightprovided Continued poge 51 Below Ryerson University team set current SAE WeightLifting record 23 lb 1991 Teams test performance against own official predictions Left CD Dan Abel standing second left helped team sponsoring Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach Florida shown Eagle Ill KEY Official** e took off landed required Unofficial* e airborne time missed landing area pieces fell off landing Awards won university teams Team NoiUniversityAward 22Univ British ColumbiaMost Weight Lifted 1800 lb 15Wichita State Hercules Team #2Second-Heaviest Weight Lifted 1600 lb 8Univ So CaliforniaThird-Heaviest Weight Lifted 1512 lb 12Univ Central FloridaFirst Place Drawings Third Place Written Presentation Third Place Oral Presentation 2Univ Central FloridaFirst Place Oral Presentation 56ConcordiaThird Place Drawings First-place Written Report 1Ohio StateSecond Place Drawings Second Place Written Presentation Second Place Oral Presentation plane left weigh years entries proved too radical successful flight straight forward lightweight designs work best Several teams brought dark horse entries team spirit rivaled seen Olympics teams wanted win didnt keep everyone having fun Teams cheered other managing get airborne flying well boot contestants worked long night repair Saturdays damage ready planes Sundays flights Contest results Saturday 86 flights made attempted Sunday 100 pm awards program cut number 63 top 15 teams total points further tested flyoff team lowest points total flew first team allowed attempt starting helper released plane very little Continued page S4 January1993 51 FLYOFF RESULTS Team NoIU n iversityPredicted Attempted Results 2 Georgia Inst Tech3000 lb0000 lbScratched 34 State Univ NY Stony Brook2200 lb1315 lbDidnt Fly 2 College Aeronautics2400 lb1513 lbDidnt Fly 5 Univ Arizona2000 lb1506 lbUnofficial* 12 Univ Cincinnati2200 lb1515 lbDidnt Fly 32 Milwaukee School Engin2150 lb1500 lbDidnt Fly 40 Rose-Hulman Inst Tech2400 lb1607 lbUnofficial* 15 Cornell University 2400 lb 1805 lb Didnt Fly 24 Iowa State University 2300 lb 1502 lb Unofticial* 30 Univ Mich Ann Arbor 2500 lb 1304 lb Didnt Fly 25 Univ Kansas 1600 lb 1304 lb Official** 27 Louisiana Tech Univ 1600 lb 1312 lb Crashed 1 Aero Univ Rzeszow Poland2700 lb1702 lbUnofficial* 8 Univ Calif Santa Barbara2000 lb1700 lbDidnt Fly 22 Univ Illinois Chicago 1950 lb 0000 lb Aborted Equip So start Once did CD Dan Abel Golden Eagles R/C Club Al Tuttle Model Builder fame did members kept 60-plus entries moving Local officials also safety-checked the announcing also took models Other SAE contests date have held Missouri Kansas photos see Pieces action Aero-Design 92 installing radio equipment flying checking weighing Lightweight simply designed models performed best Adjustable wing incidence helped too wind heat humidity stayed typical florida levels Team members put heads together integrating laboratory wind tunnel test results actual experience arrive new lifting weight prediction plane results shown accompanying table 54 Model Aviation inued page 51The students learned on-paper theory doesnt always apply practicea valuable out-of-classroom lesson Note too models full-scale airplanes suffered crash damage Team pride also sufferedat least temporarily selecting right size propeller Continued page 56 SAE/Jenkins Continued page 54 Models completed 3600 flight course after takeoff 200-ft runway Photos left bottom right show Canadian entries job winning teams demonstrated no substitute thrust Some AMA leaders have expressed interest developing weight-lifting challenge chartered clubs around nation final event would held Muncie site qualifiers regional district meets rules proposed would simple Engines would limited certain cubic inch displacement models themselves would restricted total weight configuration type rather size Like Aero-Design contest would use radio control models free flight designs did fifties-era PAA Load Fliers PAA Load event used 010 020 049 Cox Holland Hornet engines some pretty big airframes odel Aviation 4

The Society Automotive Engineers SAE Sponsors its DESIGN 92 UNIVERSITIES around world joined 61 US schools sending top engineering students Daytona Beach Florida area seventh annual Radio-Controlled Cargo Aircraft Competition held weekend May 1-3 1992 Informally called Aero-Design 92 contest sponsored Society Automotive Engineers student club Embry Riddle Aeronautical University engineering students compete weight-lifting challenge similar free flight PAA Load event sponsored now-defunct Pan American Airways part AMA Nationals 1950s became Provisional ALMA event 1968 action took place Golden Eagles R/C Club flying site Deland large full-size airport end closed runway set aside model airplane use location choice flying events Florida Contest Director Dan Abel lots help Golden Eagles club members spouses Members University British Columbia team exult first-place win Most Weight Lifted18 lb Simple model has tail boom rear fuselage As PAA Load event engineering students attempt airliftand safely landthe heaviest possible load over given course within specified limits takeoff flying landing Design limits set well planform area year restricted 1200 square inches stock unmodified K&B 61 engines allowed reversecrankshaft version available wanted try pusher configuration engines sold students special contest price Contestants must use 10%-nitro Omega fuel Morgan Fuels propeller can size must made metal planes expected lift least eight pounds first day Test flights added weight allowed students did test-fly planes until opening ary1993 47 McGill University team Montreal Canada entered Delta design 5-lb MonoKote covered model lifted 1208 lb Plane showed tendency Dutch-roll flight despite its Futaba PCM 1024 elevons Airfoil Reflex R127 two-man team University California Davis took third place overall 1512-lb hoist After working night repair first-flight damage Ohio State University team went lift 1414 lb fourth place overall day contest Does sound familiar modelers Cargo boxes must conform standard weight weight added -lb increments Before flying begins competitors present written report predicting weight design will lift theory put practice weightlifting flights October 1991 university team received invitation complete set rules regulations study before designing building its plane Teams returning members advisors advantage designs ideas have won past repeated among engineering students aint broke dont fix prevails planes take off land within marked area runway 200 feet long Teams have scant five minutes start take off plane required make 360 flight around field land touch down started losing parts isnt easy aircraft couldnt make Some planes top-heavy landing gear steering too high off runway effective ground handling An array composite materialsgraphite E-glass balsa aluminum titaniumwere used achieve strongest lightest airframe possible aircraft surfaces count toward l200-sq-in design limit 10 square inches over limit one-pound penalty subtracted final maximum weight plane has lifted Planes weighed measured before after flightprovided Continued poge 51 Below Ryerson University team set current SAE WeightLifting record 23 lb 1991 Teams test performance against own official predictions Left CD Dan Abel standing second left helped team sponsoring Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach Florida shown Eagle Ill KEY Official** e took off landed required Unofficial* e airborne time missed landing area pieces fell off landing Awards won university teams Team NoiUniversityAward 22Univ British ColumbiaMost Weight Lifted 1800 lb 15Wichita State Hercules Team #2Second-Heaviest Weight Lifted 1600 lb 8Univ So CaliforniaThird-Heaviest Weight Lifted 1512 lb 12Univ Central FloridaFirst Place Drawings Third Place Written Presentation Third Place Oral Presentation 2Univ Central FloridaFirst Place Oral Presentation 56ConcordiaThird Place Drawings First-place Written Report 1Ohio StateSecond Place Drawings Second Place Written Presentation Second Place Oral Presentation plane left weigh years entries proved too radical successful flight straight forward lightweight designs work best Several teams brought dark horse entries team spirit rivaled seen Olympics teams wanted win didnt keep everyone having fun Teams cheered other managing get airborne flying well boot contestants worked long night repair Saturdays damage ready planes Sundays flights Contest results Saturday 86 flights made attempted Sunday 100 pm awards program cut number 63 top 15 teams total points further tested flyoff team lowest points total flew first team allowed attempt starting helper released plane very little Continued page S4 January1993 51 FLYOFF RESULTS Team NoIU n iversityPredicted Attempted Results 2 Georgia Inst Tech3000 lb0000 lbScratched 34 State Univ NY Stony Brook2200 lb1315 lbDidnt Fly 2 College Aeronautics2400 lb1513 lbDidnt Fly 5 Univ Arizona2000 lb1506 lbUnofficial* 12 Univ Cincinnati2200 lb1515 lbDidnt Fly 32 Milwaukee School Engin2150 lb1500 lbDidnt Fly 40 Rose-Hulman Inst Tech2400 lb1607 lbUnofficial* 15 Cornell University 2400 lb 1805 lb Didnt Fly 24 Iowa State University 2300 lb 1502 lb Unofticial* 30 Univ Mich Ann Arbor 2500 lb 1304 lb Didnt Fly 25 Univ Kansas 1600 lb 1304 lb Official** 27 Louisiana Tech Univ 1600 lb 1312 lb Crashed 1 Aero Univ Rzeszow Poland2700 lb1702 lbUnofficial* 8 Univ Calif Santa Barbara2000 lb1700 lbDidnt Fly 22 Univ Illinois Chicago 1950 lb 0000 lb Aborted Equip So start Once did CD Dan Abel Golden Eagles R/C Club Al Tuttle Model Builder fame did members kept 60-plus entries moving Local officials also safety-checked the announcing also took models Other SAE contests date have held Missouri Kansas photos see Pieces action Aero-Design 92 installing radio equipment flying checking weighing Lightweight simply designed models performed best Adjustable wing incidence helped too wind heat humidity stayed typical florida levels Team members put heads together integrating laboratory wind tunnel test results actual experience arrive new lifting weight prediction plane results shown accompanying table 54 Model Aviation inued page 51The students learned on-paper theory doesnt always apply practicea valuable out-of-classroom lesson Note too models full-scale airplanes suffered crash damage Team pride also sufferedat least temporarily selecting right size propeller Continued page 56 SAE/Jenkins Continued page 54 Models completed 3600 flight course after takeoff 200-ft runway Photos left bottom right show Canadian entries job winning teams demonstrated no substitute thrust Some AMA leaders have expressed interest developing weight-lifting challenge chartered clubs around nation final event would held Muncie site qualifiers regional district meets rules proposed would simple Engines would limited certain cubic inch displacement models themselves would restricted total weight configuration type rather size Like Aero-Design contest would use radio control models free flight designs did fifties-era PAA Load Fliers PAA Load event used 010 020 049 Cox Holland Hornet engines some pretty big airframes odel Aviation 4