AAE 451 Aircraft Design-Build-Test, Fall 2000

Course Description

Mission Specification(.pdf)

Student Teams [DR2, Orion Aerospace, Boiler Xpress]

Course Documents Handed Out by Professor Andrisani

Course Documents Handed In by Students

National Model Aircraft Safety Code from the Academy of Model Aeronautics

Link to previous semesters of AAE451 Aircraft Design

Helpful Web sites

Other Universities that teach aircraft design using the Design-Build-Test Approach

Unofficial flight tests will be held at the Delphi Airport on Saturday, 11/18/00, starting at 8:00 AM for Boiler Express, 9:00 AM for Orion Aerospace and 10:00 AM for DR2.

Official Flight Tests will be held at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, 11/21/00, in the Mollenkopf Athletic Center (Press Release).

"Students spread their wings" (An article in the Lafayette Journal and Courier, 11/25/00, .pdf)

*** Photographs of Flight Operations ***

Some of the equipment used for this course was made possible by a generous gift to the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics from Rockwell Collins.

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