Virginia Tech Senior Aircraft Design Reports

These are the final reports and some final presentations from Virginia Tech Aircraft Design Students. Current students should be aware that not all of these reports were graded A (or even B).

• The 2007-2008 Design Projects
  • Human Powered Airplane Project Competing for the Kremer Prize - advised in 2007-2008 by Kevin Kochersberger
    • The Final Report for Spring 2008 A 44.6M pdf file
  • The Commercial Airplane of the Future
    • STINGRAE , the 2008 winner of the NASA Fundamental Aeronautics Student Competition, - undergraduate division, advised by Andy Ko - Congratulations!

• The 2006-2007 Design Projects
  • Human Powered Airplane Project
    • The Spring 2007 Flight Test of the first 1/4 scale model of Iron Butterfly
      • April 30, 2006, The Iron Butterfly Premier a 23.6M Windows Media Player file
    • The Final Report for Spring 2007 A 2.6M pdf file
  • AIAA Design Competition: An Austere Field STOL Tactical Transport (6 teams)
    • The Team Arrowspace , Hermes a 1.3M pdf file
    • The Initech JTC-2E Swingliner a 3.1M pdf file
    • The Zoltan YC-154 Skymaster II a 9.6M pdf file
    • The Heavy Lifters, Free Weight a 1.9M pdf file
    • The Mson Project, S.T.O.R.K. a 1.9M pdf file
    • The A-Team Aeronautics Mr. T a 2M pdf file

• The 2005-2006 Design Projects
  • AEME Morphing 2005-2006
    • Fall Movie of the first flight Nov. 11, 2005
    • Spring Movie flight of the rebuilt airplane Mar. 29, 2006
    • The Final Report for Spring 2006 A 27.7M pdf file
  • Human Powered Airplane Project
    • The Spring 2006 Flight Test of the first 1/4 scale model of Iron Butterfly
      • April 30, 2006, The Iron Butterfly Premier a 23.6M Windows Media Player file
    • The Final Report for Spring 2006 A 2.6M pdf file
  • MicroMAPS
  • AIAA Design Competition: The Homeland Interceptor (4 teams)
    • VersaCorp, the Gavial a 9.1M pdf file
    • Horizon Aero, the Horizon One a 3M pdf file
    • Razerworks, The Shrike a 21.2M pdf file
    • Manafour Aero, The Hedgehog a 2.5M pdf file

• The 2004-2005 Design Projects
  • MicroMAPS, Final Report for Spring 2005, (3M), installation on a UAV, sponsored by NASA Langley and the Virginia Space Grant Consortium.
    • MicroMAPS, Final Presentation for Spring 2005, (12M)
  • ALDS Report, the Advanced Logistics Delivery System, also known as “the Glider”, Final Report. This project was suggested by the US Navy Carderock Innovation Center and the Center for Innovations in Ship Design.
    • ALDS Presentation, the Glider Final Presentation
  • AIAA Design Competition, an advanced gunship
    • Archangel a 5.9M pdf file
    • Hokieworks Phoenix, a 1.7M pdf file
      • Hokieworks Phoenix Final presentation, a 4.8M pdf file
    • The Casper a 7.6M pdf file
      • The Casper Final Presentation a 24.9M pdf file
  • AEME Morphing 2004-2005 Final Reports
    • Fall Report
      • Final Fall Presentation
      • Fall Movie1 test of the telescoping mechanism.
      • Fall Movie2 wind tunnel setup.
    • Spring Report
      • Final Spring Presentation
      • Spring Demo movie 1
      • Spring Demo Movie 2

• The 2003-2004 Design Projects
  • Team Ascent, the Peregrine Final Report (6.2M) (AIAA Competition)
  • Team Volant, the Firefly Final Report, (8.3M) (AIAA Competition - Second Place Winner)
    • Team Volant, the Firefly Final Presentation, (10.3M pdf file)
  • Team Bacchus, the AAT-100 Final Report, (4.8M) (AIAA Competition)
  • AEME Morphing 2003-2004 Final Reports
    • Fall Report, (3.3M) an asymmetric wing extension of the BetaMax from Spring 2003
    • Spring Report, (6.3M) a new HALE vehicle concept
    • Use this link to get to see movies of the morphing airplanes

• The 2002-2003 Design Projects:
  • The SWAT Team, Final Report, (12.7M), a morphing design paper study
    • The SWAT Team, Final Presentation, (20.3M)
  • MEAE Morphing 2003, Final Report, (2.2M), an actual morphing flying airplane!
    • MEAE Morphing 2003, Final Presentation, (20.7M)
  • Postal Penquin, Final Report, (1.9M), a UCAV, a joint aircraft and ocean design team project
    • Postal Penquin, Final Presentation, (3.5M)
  • The Lemming, Final Report, (6.3M), a Low-cost Expendable UAV
    • The Lemming, Final Presentation, (7.2M)
  • MicroMAPS, Final Report, (2.7M), a joint space team/aircraft design team project
    • MicroMAPS, Final Presentation, (6.9M)

• The 2001-2002 Design Projects
  • SW-Ghost Final Report/Proposal Second Place Winner - AIAA.
  • AE Morphing Team Final Report May 2002 (4.2M pdf file)

• The 2000-2001 reports, a Navy Common Support Aircraft:
  • the Team Chimera Final Report/Proposal. FIRST PLACE WINNER! - AIAA
  • the Team Vertigo Final Report/Proposal.

• The 1999-2000 AIAA Second Place Winner, the Vulture2000 Final Report/Proposal.

• The 1998-99 AIAA Second Place Winner, the Team USA Skyhopper Final Report/Proposal.

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